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From: mw22+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Alan Wertheim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A Question on Write protection
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Date: 2 Mar 88 14:27:29 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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I'm not sure about 3.5-inch drives, but with 5.25-inch drives the 
write-protect mechanism is in the hardware.  You can tell DOS or ProDOS to 
ignore the write-protect, but it still won't be able to write on the disk.


Michael Wertheim
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

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