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		rasz 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical dis... Drives? I havent seen one yet. Floppies yes, but just like SD cards its just a plastic piece being read by controller GPIO and a mere suggestion to the hardware. There are forensic Write blockers for drives tho starting at around $200 for SATA/IDE solution.

numpad0 4 months ago [–]

Some of really old SCSI and (I think)IDE HDDs did have "WP" jumper positions. I don't know practically how it was implemented, though.

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