My son had a non-writable hard disk. You could format it - and still re-boot
into windows and all the files were still all there. You could delete them -
but on reboot, back they'd be. We re-formatted it, tried installing Linux
and still it rebooted in Windows. I personally think the MBR and other
system areas were faulty - readable, but not writable. You could write new
files to the drive - but if you then tried to delete them, back they'd be
after a reboot. We tried a Norton rescue disk for another PC (whch had
Norton on it and a similar hard disk) to force a rewrite of the system areas
- but still nope! Reboot the PC and the drive would be back to normal. We
also tried putting BEOS on it - same thing. We tried the drive in different
PCs - still the same. We threw the drive away eventually - although my son
wanted to try using a powerful electro-magnet to format the drive first lol
That really was the weirdest drive I ever encountered - being my son's
drive, he even tried the manufacturers low-level format and diagnostic
utilities - which like Windows and the BIOS reported the drive as 'Working
properly'. My son also wanted to try selling the drive to Microsoft - he
figured MS might be interested ina drive which Windows can't be removed
from. My son ended up storing copies of important MP3s on there - firguring
it was the perfect permanent storage place.
Allan (who is being 100% honest in this email)
PS No trees were harmed in the sending of this message and a very large
number of electrons were asked their permission to be terribly
inconvenienced. (And threw a party for them afterwards for being really cool
about it).
Disrupting the unnatural balance that you, as a conscious human being and a
confused mass of energy, have created.
-Disturb the mind -
>From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: Ornery mood
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:23:30 -0500
>
>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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