Protecting a slaved IDE hard drive

[EnVeM]

i've read/heard that by cutting a wire on my ide cable it may be possible to create a read only drive on my Windows machine. possible? if not, any other methods available? tia

 

[tchatzi]

Playing with your IDE cable is not a good idea.

You can simply choose all the files on the hard drive and make them Read-Only. Maybe searching in google for a third-party program will come handy, but I'm not promising.

But if you want to do that on the drive you have the OS, I don't think that it will boot again.

TIMTOWTDI

 

[EnVeM]

actually, it'll be a slaved drive, so booting is not an issue.making the files read only will only "half" protect the drive. it can still be written to,which i don't want.

 

[stuuked]

why not just give read only permissions through sharing. I did see something about cutting wire 28 on and eide cable, but that just does not seem like a solution to making it read only, read only permissions are full proof unless password is broken, especially in a slave drive.

 

[EnVeM]

i've been researching the pin allocations and i have tried pin #23, which did'nt work. the bios failed to detect my drive. i'll try another spare cable and snip #28.(i'm experimenting with old 40 conductor cables i have laying around)

 

[EnVeM]

nope, no-go on pin 28,although it did get detected this time. i'm afraid i'll have to through one pin at a time.

 

[garebo]

From time to time I have seen a few cables with one pin missing on it. I wonder if that is the pin you are talking about?


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[garebo]

Also, couldnt you, as suggested, make these files read only and then zip them up with a password?


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[micker377]

The center pin missing, is normal for IDE cables (alignment key).

 

[mainegeek]

EnVem,
Why don't you put the files on a cd or dvd and give them that? Then they would definitely be read-only.

 

[tchatzi]

Just transfer the files somewhere else(like a back up),
then format this slave drive as NTFS, put the files back in, and go to properties of the folders/files and choose read-only.

Is this drive shared on a network?

TIMTOWTDI

 

[paparazi]

EnVeM
Always know for putting a spanner in the works but....

Hows about putting that slave Hard drive in to a $30 USB2 external hard drive enclosure.
That way you can turn it on and off when you need it and best of all remove it all together to lock away for safe keeping.

Martin

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