Re: Protecting Diskette from eject an write IN SOFTWARE

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From: Tim W Smith
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1988 11:28

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There is a bit in the flags that occur just before the drive queue entry
that tells if the volume is ejectable.

The Finder determines if a volume is write protected by doing a status
call to the driver for that volume.  See the chapter on the disk driver
in inside Macintosh.

					Tim Smith

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