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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Write Protection for Fixed Disk...
Message-ID: <461@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 88 17:15:12 GMT
References: <121@wizdom.UUCP>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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In article <121@wizdom.UUCP> fatino@wizdom.uucp (Mike Fatino) writes:
>Does anyone out there know where I could find some software to
>write protect a hard drive in a MAC SE?  Or is there a trick in
>the hardware to accomplish the same.  I would appreciate it much!

There's a DA called DiskLock that does what you want.  It lets you lock
and unlock unmountable volumes, and from what I've seen, it seems to
work correctly and not cause things to crash.

Of course, since there's no hardware write protection, I suppose an
errant program could still manage to write garbage to the disk, but the
DA should be effective otherwise.

I think I got it off of comp.binaries.mac a short time ago, so it may
be in the archives.  If not, let me know and I can mail it to those
who are interested.

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