And as far as I am aware it's not possible to write protect a hard
drive... at least through hardware. Some systems may allow it via BIOS
controls. Googling around, however, I did find several instances of
system software *reporting" that the hard drive was write protected.
However the write protection disappeared after rebooting the system :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Garth wrote:
> AG Schnozz wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>
>>Now hold on just a cotton-picken moment. What would a
>>Microdrive (approved by Olympus BTW) have anything to do with
>>it? The thing might be boat slow, but it's been great.
>
>
> It's not the microdrive per se, but the difference in the way the media
> can (or can not) be set to read-only *globally*. As far as I'm aware,
> that's perfectly possible for a hard drive. Unlike a CF card. (In
> fact, there are stories of people who accidentally set their boot drive
> on a PC to read-only and then find that, next time they start their PC,
> can't get it to boot...)
>
>
>>Seems like the OS in the camera should be able to handle it just
>>fine. I'd hate to think that the OS system is that sensitive to
>>throughput rates. If so, I'm going to start rethinking my plans
>>on going 100% digital.
>
>
> It's the media, not the camera's OS, that concerns me.
>
>
> Garth
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