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From: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: viruses rumors
Message-ID: <6160@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 89 03:00:52 GMT
References: <976@geocub.UUCP> <6081@cbmvax.UUCP> <123@unigs.CH>
Reply-To: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 27

In article <123@unigs.CH> zuber@unigs.CH (Zuberbuehler Ueli) writ
es:
>Write protection should be handled by the disk drive unit.

Write protection IS handled by the disk unit!!!!


>Most disk drives do not handle this correctly. All what they do is to set
>a signal to controller that this disk is write protected. If the software
>doesn`t check this line, then you could write data on a write protected
>disk.

Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong!  Please do not spread this false rummor
any more.  Every disk drive unit Commodore has ever purchased for
use in the Amiga has HARDWARE write protection.  If the write-protect
sensor indicates the disk is protected, NO SOFTWARE ACTION CAN
WRITE TO THE DISK.


The ONLY way to write to a disk is to move the little tab on the disk,
or physically defeat or break the sensor. 

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