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From: gus@Shasta.ARPA
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Subject: Re: HFS compatability and Software backup - Simple solutions
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 16:04:13 EST
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> > unacceptable this would be. (You DO write-protect all of your master disks,
> > don't you?)
>
> I was just wondering... An article on the net several months ago hinted that
> write-protecting a disk (with the tab in the upper left corner) didn't REALLY
> protect the disk; that it was up to the software to ask the OS if the disk
> was locked; that if the s/w didn't ask, the disk could be written to whether
> or not it was locked.    DOES ANYONE IN NETLAND KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE?????
>
>
> Sam Mantel -- Roch, NY

...And an article from Apple a few days later said that indeed, the disk IS
write-protected in hardware as well as software.