<x-flowed>At 05:06 PM 02/13/2001 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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. My thought would be for two kernels. One for development work (r/w) and one for a production environment (r/o). You can always write to a floppy if needed to save data/files/packages. </x-flowed>
