Re: harddisk "Write Protect" bit

["Mulyadi Santosa" <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi...

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is really nerve-cracking.
>
>  In one PC, my USB drive's dmesg output is:
>
>  sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
>  sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
>  sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
>  sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
>  sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
>  sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
>  sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
>  sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
>   sdd: sdd1 sdd2 sdd3 < sdd5 > sdd4
>  sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
>
>
>  But in another PC, the output is (just the relevant entry):
>
>  "Write Protect is on".

Does this USB pen drive have somekind of write protect mechanism? Like
a button you can switch on and off?

regards,

Mulyadi.

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