> > May be you can let me know what the "write protect" switch is mean for on SCSI > > drives!!! > > Sounds to me like the separate write protect switch I had mentioned:
Yep, it is, most probably, it... I've been running my LEAF/lrp on an "old" 2 GB (-; hd for a while now... I put an old "turbo" switch on the jumper and can turn the write protect ON or OFF as needed... > I have an old ST15150N 4GB!! drive I was hoping to use with LRP, just because > this "write protect" feature!! I don't think you should have any problem doing so. BTW, you should find most of the information you'll need in Charles' hd howto. ( http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Documentation/LRPHardDiskHOWTO.txt ) > A 4GB LRP HD! egads.... how things change. In my case I formatted a much smaller partition... Since I write-protect my hd I can't store logs & things like that on it & having a partition which is a LOT MORE bigger than the amount of RAM wouldn't be, at least in my case, very useful... (This could be useful to somebody who would put a web server with a lot of static pages on her/his firewall though...) For me, LEAF/lrp is no longer a Linux distribution which fits on a floppy, it's a Linux distribution that, once booted, runs from a ramdisk... > > There _are_ rare hard or flash disks with built-in write protect > > switches, but that is a function unrelated to the interface cable > > signals. At least in the case of hard disks it's a feature you only find on SCSI hard disks & unfortunatly not all of them. I've only seen this "feature" on hard disks of 1G and above (and like I said, not all of them). I ended up using an old Adaptec AHA-1542CF (an old isa card) with a old IBM hd (model # DFHSS2F) I got on ebay... BTW, before I switched to a hd, I used two floppy diskettes drives with 1.44MB formatted floppies. I did try 1.68 but I had problems with that format. Have a nice weekend! Nick _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
