Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!nikhefk!paulm From: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Writing to write protected disks? Keywords: Virus,Atari,ST Message-ID: <421@nikhefk.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 88 22:08:34 GMT References: <614@ethz.UUCP> <1633@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <420@nikhefk.UUCP> <1659@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Reply-To: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar) Organization: Personal Computer Magazine, Holland Host: NIKHEFK Lines: 23 In article <1659@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> angles@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Ian Angles) writes: # # In truth it is possible to bypass almost all the hardware interrupts #on the ST by disabling them or catching them before the OS catches them. # #ps # Borf Is here I don't want to start a big argument about this but... Sure, the ST's hardware can (you say it) be bypassed. But how about the drive's hardware? Drives too, or should I say: primarily, have hardware that prevents writing to a write-protected disk. It's not the diskcontroller that does all the work.. Paul Molenaar "Just checking the walls" - Basil Fawlty - -- Paul Molenaar "Just checking the walls" - Basil Fawlty -