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Lock/Unlock Floppy
Name: BB65 Date: January 21, 2003 at 10:35:30 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: Intel P4 256 MB Ram
Comment:
Hi Ih want to lock/unlock the floppy drive using a program or a batch.
Name: christopher Date: January 25, 2003 at 23:24:52 Pacific
Reply:
You can use a floppy locker to do so! It is a hardware with a key to lock it!
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Response Number 2
Name: DAVE Date: January 26, 2003 at 19:35:01 Pacific
Reply:
unless you have a MAC, thats impossible. the floppy drive mechanism is completely mechanical, the computer has nothing to do with it. unless you have a mac, whose floppy drive is usually motorized and controlled by the computer
DAVE
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Response Number 3
Name: ck Date: January 29, 2003 at 12:09:46 Pacific
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the macintosh doesn't lock its floppies by software, just ejects them (whereas on the PC you need to press a button to get the floppy out of the drive, in the macintosh you eject it via a system menu)
as far as i know, no computer can lock the floppy by software (unless someone invents som new type of floppy drive that can do so, but that seem unlikey as the floppy seems to be on its way out)
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