Floppy disk drives, controllers (floppy) and write-protect notches

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From: Greg "The Little Big Guy" Bertin
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 01:59

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Hi everyone:  Does anyone know if write-protecting a diskette physically
              prevents a drive from writing to it?

              Could controller calls, in theory, write to a write-protected
              diskette?

              If you know of any drive controllers that exhibit the above
              behaviour, could you please drop me a line at:

              "gjbertin@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca"

              Thanks in advance.

gjb

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From: gjbertin@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Greg "The Little Big Guy" Bertin)
Subject: Floppy disk drives, controllers (floppy) and write-protect notches
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