On Wednesday 06 February 2002 10:56, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, guitarlynn wrote:
> > 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.
Your right, my BIOS won't acknowledge the disk with the write
pin (#23) 'disabled'. I guess if you wanted to go far enough, you
could put a solid state time-delay relay on the power switch and
set it to shut the write pin off after 'x' seconds ... not too practical
though. I did find another interesting link though, pricing is very
nice too:
http://www.ssti.com/news/news115.html
> 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.
I can attest that this affects the BIOS too ... no write, no drive!
Thanks for the info ... I've been intending to atleast try it for
quite some time in any case. I might go ahead and try the relay
thing, but time would be rather expensive just to do it other than
fun.
--
~Lynn Avants
aka Guitarlynn
guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net
http://leaf.sourceforge.net
If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question!
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