At 9:58 PM -0700 8/31/2009, Paul wrote:
>That reminds me - is there a way to write protect an external drive?
>Most (maybe all) of them don't have a hardware switch.

I haven't seen a hardware write-lock in years.

Most file systems support a software write-lock.... but it's just 
that - software.  It can be violated at will.

- Dan.
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