Re: Writing to write protected disks?

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From: Thomas Cervera
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1988 11:19

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In article <1633@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, whitbye@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Elliot Maxwell Whitby) writes:
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> Yes it is unfortunately possible to write to write protected disks.

Huh ? 
As I've heard, the write protection signal prohibits the write circuitry
in the floppy drive directly to write anything, so the drive would ignore
any write commands from the controller. Or am I wrong ?

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From: alderaan@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
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Subject: Re: Writing to write protected disks?
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Date: 22 Sep 88 11:19:55 GMT
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