On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Herbert Graf wrote: > > 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? I don't know that it does tell the OS, I think it disconnects the write ability in hardware. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist