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From: iansmith@pepper.ncinter.net (Ian M Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI WORM Driver Wanted
Date: 23 Sep 1995 02:47:10 GMT
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Jon Zeeff (jon@branch.com) wrote:
> One can always overwrite a WORM drive, destroying the contents.  You should be
> able to just write to the drive as a raw device,

So it is possible to mangle the data on a Worm drive then?  I was
not aware of this.

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