On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, guitarlynn wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 February 2002 02:04, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, guitarlynn wrote:
> > > Yes, a product to keep me from cutting tiny toggle switches into
> > > those blasted IDE cables would be a godsend! I can live with the CF
> > > cards nicely though for the time being (if I can get one anyway)!
> >
> > My curiosity gets the better of me... just how many of these toggle
> > switches have you installed, and how well have they worked?
>
> hehe, I haven't to be honest .... I was in a strange mood @that time.
> I probably shouldn't have put it in there, sorry.
>
> I remember a long thread with some people trying this a couple of years
> ago though, did anybody ever have any success??? If my memory
> serves me right, there was a problem with disk-corruption errors if
> the system tried to write to the HD.
>
> It wouldn't be much trouble for me to try this if your really
> interested though. A less frustrating way of trying would be to
> wack a piece out of wire #23 and simply switch to another cable
> to write.
>
> I'll give it a try, I need to do some soldering today anyway!
> You bit, I will too.
The reason I bit was that in theory this should not work.
The write signal is used to convey information to registers in the device
that select which data to retrieve from the IDE device. Thus, a write
protect signal on the device that acts between the registers and the
storage medium is required, and Mike Noyes' find really is significant.
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