guitarlynn wrote:
> 
> On Friday 08 February 2002 08:39, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> > Um...you won't find any standard motherboards that support the usage
> > of pin 30 for write-protect, and even if you could, it would probably
> > be controlled by software, not a switch, which kind of defeats the
> > whole purpose.  That's the entire reason the WP jumper is on the
> > device in the first place...you can use the pin 30 interface if
> > you're designing a custom board...folks with standard hardware can
> > just use the jumper (or optionally wire the jumper to a manual
> > switch).
> 
> OK, this is where I might be confused myself, and confusing others such
> as Matt.

Hey!

Someone might be interested in an assembly code software
write-protect program for IDE devices that intercepts int13
calls (or something like that, I don't get it all)

http://wcarchive.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/protect.asm

Download the file and read it.  Very interesting.  Not
sure if anyone can make it executable on Linux though.

Matt

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