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From: malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: write protect disk drive
Message-ID: <217@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 88 15:25:07 GMT
References: <6266@techunix.BITNET>
Reply-To: malpass@ll-vlsi.arpa.UUCP (Don Malpass)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington MA
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In article <6266@techunix.BITNET> baruchc%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Baruch Cochavy) writes:
>I would like to write protect the C partition of a hard disk, but keep
>drive D free.

Now that viruses (virii?) have finally gotten appropriate attention,
I've been thinking of adding HARDWARE write-protect to my hard
disks so that questionable software can be exercised from floppy
only.  Anybody have any thoughts about this?
-- 
Don Malpass   [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa],  [malpass@gandalf.ll.mit.edu] 
  The Malpass Principle:  Given a binary choice, the statistical
    probability of doing the right thing is 31.7% - on good days.