> [When I mount] an Iomega Zip drive ... occasionally[,] I get the message:
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: sda4
> ... Is there a command out there somewhere to write protect/unprotect
> disks?
I am not familiar with Iomega drives but strongly suspect that the
message is simply a warning that the write-protect tab is in the writable
position.
*nix distinguishes between the drive (a device) and the filesystem,
(its data). You can write-protect the drive (disallow control) by using
chmod a-w on its node /dev/sda?. This is probably not what you want since
reading a device that you can't control is usually not useful.
mount -r (see "man 8 mount for further details) will mount the
filesystem (data) read-only. All the standard i/o drivers (see man 4 ioctl
and man 3 errno for further details) will return -1 and set errno to EROFS.
Setting the write-protect tab on the media will normally have the same effect.
Hope this helps
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