we've had this discution on LRP list, I believe. I don't remember the do's and don'ts, but different drivers for read and read/write seams like a good idea, provided that the system is still booted from the read-only floppy, and the modules used are the ones on the floppy. a timed prompt on the floppy boot to select IDE driver would be cool. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Leaf-devel] Read-only Linux IDE drivers? > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
