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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: writing to right protected 5.25 inch disks
Message-ID: <561@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 89 16:25:49 GMT
References: <6225@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <6225@bsu-cs.UUCP> mdlawler@bsu-cs.UUCP (Mike Lawler) writes:
>
>I'd like to be able to write to some disks that don't have right protect
>noches without having to make a noch in them.  Does anyone know of software
>that will allow you to write to a right protected disk?

This is a hardware modification, not a software mod.  You will have to
modify the floppy drive to ignore the write-protect line.  On older
drivers it was an actual mechanical switch, but on the newer drives it
is an led.


JB

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