Why not modify your code to make the drive Read only, unless
some sort of 'unlock' sequence is executed? E.g. read last sector,
N-1, n-2, n-3 then n-3 n-2 n-1 N.
Something no O/S will do, but your 'unlock' program would.

R


hgraf wrote:

> 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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