Disk archival techniques

[Jules Richardson]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:58 -0400, John Allain wrote:
> With all this talk about archiving and live media storage I 
> just flashed back again to the 80's and the seemingly lost
> concept of a Read-Only hard drive.  This would be great
> for virus proofing long-term data today.  Anybody know of
> an add-on hack for IDE or SCSI that will do this?  Envisioned
> is a ribbon cable with a line or two cut but I imagine if it was
> that simple people would already make them.

Most older SCSI drives had a WP jumper; newer ones maybe do too. I can't
remember if WP is brought out to one of the pins on a drive with an SCA
connector though...

<fx: fossicks>

Hmm, it doesn't appear to be.

I've given up on tape and optical media for storage.... I backup and
mirror to several drives that are normally kept off-line. I suppose if I
only wanted read-only access, I'd mount the drives that way from
software :)

cheers

Jules