19 May
2005
19 May
'05
9:44 a.m.
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:58 -0400, John Allain wrote:
With all this talk about archiving and live media
storage I
just flashed back again to the 80's and the seemingly lost
concept of a Read-Only hard drive. This would be great
for virus proofing long-term data today. Anybody know of
an add-on hack for IDE or SCSI that will do this? Envisioned
is a ribbon cable with a line or two cut but I imagine if it was
that simple people would already make them.
Most older SCSI drives had a WP jumper; newer ones maybe do too. I can't
remember if WP is brought out to one of the pins on a drive with an SCA
connector though...
<fx: fossicks>
Hmm, it doesn't appear to be.
I've given up on tape and optical media for storage.... I backup and
mirror to several drives that are normally kept off-line. I suppose if I
only wanted read-only access, I'd mount the drives that way from
software :)
cheers
Jules