On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 16:40 -0800, Michael Dipperstein wrote:
> > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
> Behalf
> > Of Herbert Graf
> > 
> > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:33 -0500, David VanHorn wrote:
> > > Don't a lot of them have write protect locks?
> > 
> > Unfortunately I'm not dealing with a real drive, but I would be
> > interested in what such a switch exactly does? How does the OS get
> told
> > the drive is read only?
> 
> Am I missing something, or is it enough to use /etc/fstab to tell the OS
> that the drive is read only?

Considering the USB drive is automounted by the OS, and I don't want to
affect the behaviour of other USB drives that might be plugged in, I
didn't think this was an option. That was why I was hoping there was a
method over the ATA interface to indicate RO.

That said, is there a way to selectively set the mount options for USB
drives?

Thanks, TTYL
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