Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!sungod!davidsen From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Preventing Floppy Boots Message-ID: <1710@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 16 Aug 89 17:06:45 GMT References: <1989Aug15.183532.27998@ee.rochester.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Distribution: na Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 18 If (1) the system is an AT, and (b) you can live with one floppy disk, make it the B drive and change setup to show it as such. *most* systems will not boot off the B drive. This assumes that the physical security is at least minimal (case lock) so the floppy can't be recabled by unauthorized personell. Note: before the AT came out I saw one non-disclosure, and suggested that a third position be added to the key switch to boot from hard disk only. IBM told me there would be no market, since "nobody does anything important on a PC, anyway." If they had done it, it would be standard on all clones today. Watch out for password systems, if you lose the password you may *really lose*. I saw this on a PS/2, where 2 months of work was flushed for want of a password. bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me