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From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Hard Drive Security on the 3000UX
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Date: 22 Jun 91 06:35:15 GMT
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Is it possible from AmigaDos to access the hard disk partition used
by Unix ?? Using NORMAL AmigaDos methods it should be well out of the
way and inaccessable, but is it possible for someone to write a disk
editor for the harddisk which bypasses all the normal library routines
and get at the Unix partition ?  If you can write a hard-drive library
to respect certain boundries then it is possible to write one which
ignores them.  Its not likely that this sort of program would be
commonly available, but if using the hard-drive is anything like using
the floppy, what is there to stop someone saying "step out another track"
past the AmigaDos partition to where Unix is ?

-darren