Has anyone ever done this? It seems like this would be a good way to include IDE into the kernel in an embedded application, so as to provide the utmost security. Hardware solutions appear to be non- existant, and software solutions either allow write access, or disallow access altogether. If one modified the IDE driver to be read-only, then either installed it into the kernel or as a module, would that not be better? If it was a module, then you could remove read AND write access by removing the module and erasing it. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Linux, Unixware [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel