On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 f-lvm@media.mit.edu wrote:
> Not being able to write-lock disks means I've had to be very, very
> careful in a number of situations when I wished I didn't have to worry
> so much about shooting myself in the foot.
For IDE drives, hdparm -r will set the readonly flag for the entire
drive. I'm not sure if SATA has a similar feature. But as you say,
in a number of situations, a hardware jumper is better.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
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