Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site crystal.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!crystal!bill From: bill@crystal.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Re: Re: Junkware Message-ID: <502@crystal.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 16:13:23 EDT Article-I.D.: crystal.502 Posted: Fri Aug 23 16:13:23 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 00:49:50 EDT References: <2957@seismo.UUCP> <481@oakhill.UUCP> <1813@reed.UUCP> <2861@amdcad.UUCP> <370@sara70.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 23 > > >The Apple Disk Utility on the Software Supplement seems to ignore it also. > > That is NOT true. If you try to copy to a locked disk the error message > "disk locked?" appears. So, I still believe it is pure NONSENSE that the > protection is a flag bit in software. > {seismo,decvax,philabs}!mcvax!sara70!rick > I've never done this, but... At least on the external drive, you can fool the drive into thinking that the disk is write-enabled by turning off the LED. I got this from an Apple tech support person. If you can do it on the external, it's probably possible on the internal as well. bill -- William Cox Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin, Madison WI bill@uwisc ...{ihnp4,seismo,allegra}!uwvax!bill