Thanks Bill, but the one I'm talking about is a regular IDE type. I just
wondered if there was a simple way of write protecting an IDE HDD, like you
can do with the shutter on a floppy. No matter.
Ian Porter
Computer Guys
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Cohane"
> At 4/15/2002 05:23 PM, Ian wrote:
> >Anyone know if it's possible to 'lock' a hard drive so it
> >can't be written to? This would be handy in the case of
> >a master drive used for duplication purposes.
>
> Hi Ian
>
> Most (if not all) of the SCSI drives that I've installed
> had a jumper to "write protect" the drive. I never used
> this jumper, but it sounds like what you want.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
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