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

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From: Janos Szamosfalvi
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 13:06

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Greg "The Little Big Guy" Bertin (gjbertin@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:

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

Yes.

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

No.

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