florin at iucha.net (Florin Iucha) writes:

> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:16:02PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> > I know sysadmins who have hacked a hardware write-protect switch for
> 
> Do you mean they put a jumper on the RO pins on the HDD?

I don't think so; I don't recall drives of that era having a RO jumper
ready to go.  If so, it's even easier to just put a switch across it.
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