Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!well!mccarthy
From: mccarthy@well.UUCP (Patrick McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A Question on Write protection
Message-ID: <5344@well.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 03:16:08 GMT
References: <1068@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: mccarthy@well.UUCP (Patrick McCarthy)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Regarding writing to write-protected disks, as far as I know, there is
*NO WAY* to write to a write protected disk on an unmodified Apple
(or totally Apple compatible) drive (also assuming that the drive
itself isn't blown up).  There is a simple modification you can make
to apple-compatible drives to make them ignore write protection (I've
done this to my second drive), and one of the most common hardware
flames will cause an Apple drive to wipe track 0 clean, write protect
or no, but other than that...

I'm also not totally convinced that write protection can be software
ovveridden on IBM machines, either, but I wouldn't bet my paycheck
on it.

Pat McCarthy
mccarthy@well.uucp