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Why would a floppy A drive say all my disks are write-protected?
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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 238554" data-attributes="member: 175235"><p>Yea, all the floppy drives I've seen (not all that many) have had a little bit of plastic and a spring that forms part of a switch, when the hole on the disc is blocked the plastic is pushed down, when open the plastic is up.</p><p></p><p>This is also the right way round for the switch failing, should the spring wear out or the plastic in some way detach itself then the drive will permanently think the disc in it is write protected (which is better than thinking it's write enabled which could lead to loss of data), but I don't know if this extra bit of security is intentional or just chance...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 238554, member: 175235"] Yea, all the floppy drives I've seen (not all that many) have had a little bit of plastic and a spring that forms part of a switch, when the hole on the disc is blocked the plastic is pushed down, when open the plastic is up. This is also the right way round for the switch failing, should the spring wear out or the plastic in some way detach itself then the drive will permanently think the disc in it is write protected (which is better than thinking it's write enabled which could lead to loss of data), but I don't know if this extra bit of security is intentional or just chance... [/QUOTE]
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