Another interesting question...

I've created some hardware to emulate an IDE hard drive. I've connected
this emulated drive to a computer using a USB2.0-PATA bridge.

It works well, however, due to the way things need to work it would make
my life easier if I could prevent the OS from writing to my "drive".

Is there a way under linux (Ubuntu 7.10) to cause a USB hard drive to be
mounted read-only (it's currently being auto mounted, I don't want my
changes to have any effect on other USB drives being mounted)? Is there
something in the identify drive data that a hard drive returns that I
can set to cause the hard drive to be read only (I can change anything
there I want)?

Again, I've googled, but haven't really come up with anything.

Thanks for any pointers.

TTYL
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