Upgrade Hard Drive

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Jan 11 19:44:17 UTC 2008


On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:29:07 -0800
"jdow" <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: "Michael Wiktowy" <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 2008, January 09 11:25
> 
> 
> > - quadruple check the if= and of= targets ... then check them again
> > ... there is no quicker way of hosing all your data than getting those
> > reversed.
> 
> Self fondly remembers when I was working with SCSI drives that actually
> had a "read only" jumper you could set. I absolutely LOVED that protection
> measure.

You can get read only PATA and SATA paddles. Anyone dealing with computer
forensics supplies should carry them.

Alan




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