Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!tmpmbx!netmbx!alderaan From: alderaan@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Writing to write protected disks? Keywords: Virus,Atari,ST Message-ID: <1415@netmbx.UUCP> Date: 22 Sep 88 11:19:55 GMT References: <614@ethz.UUCP> <1633@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany Lines: 18 In article <1633@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, whitbye@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Elliot Maxwell Whitby) writes: > > Yes it is unfortunately possible to write to write protected disks. Huh ? As I've heard, the write protection signal prohibits the write circuitry in the floppy drive directly to write anything, so the drive would ignore any write commands from the controller. Or am I wrong ? -- alderaan OP RKOpdp (RSTS/E) FB Mathematik/Informatik RKO Berlin Dieffenbachstrasze 60-61 1000 Berlin 61