Locking a drive is okay as long as your swap file isn't on it. Your
operating system may not operate without the ability to write to its swap
file.
--gary r. tennesen
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Cohane" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Master drive
> 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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