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From: aaron@uwmacc.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy protect methods & paranoia
Message-ID: <100@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 19:41:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 30 19:41:46 1986
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Reply-To: aaron@uwmacc.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Organization: National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, Wi.
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In article <584@mips.UUCP> rick@mips.UUCP (Rick Frazier) writes:
>
>Well, I hope this doesn't start a wave of paranoia out there, but I believe
>that YOU CAN WRITE TO A PROTECTED DISK UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.  Some time
>back I was fooling around with Disked....And it weems to me that it gave me 
>the choice of toggling the write protect on and off from the keyboard, 
>irrespective of the "sense" of the tab on the diskette.  Obviously if this

The "write protect" in DiskEd is merely a software write protect so that you
don't accidentally write to the disk, but you can still have the disk 
unprotected hardware wise. I don't beleive you can ever write to a protected
disk, but I have had the Amiga mess up a protected source disk during a 
DiskCopy.

Aaron Avery ({seismo,topaz,caip,allegra,ihnp4}!uwvax!uwmacc!aaron)
            (aaron%maccunix@rsch.wisc.edu)
            (aaron@unix.macc.wisc.edu)