[Wylug-help] Readonly option in hdparm

[Jim Jackson]

Thomas, email to nick.thomas at eldon.co.uk is being bounced by legend.

"<nick.thomas at eldon.co.uk>:
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Remote host said: 552 mailin2: your "received:" header counts of 22
exceeds
maximum setting 15"

I'd say 15 is a pretty low count.


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jim Jackson wrote:

>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Thomas, Nicholas wrote:
>
> > Not really a linux question, but, Is it possible to make a hard disk drive
> > readonly?
> > I want to create a hard drive which cannot be re-formatted, or change any of
> > the data on any partitions.
> > I suppose I mean a read-only hard drive. It would be similar to having one
> > of those a TABs on a floppy diskettes.
> >
> > I have been messing with the -r option to hdparm. This does appear to do
> > what I want, but the readonly status is lost after a reboot.
>
> Did you set the option to retain settings?
>
> > If this is not possible with a conventional hard drive, is it possible with
> > a compact flash card + IDE adaptor?
>
> Interesting questions - I too would be interested in any answers or
> pointers.
>
> Jim
>
>
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