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From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI WORM Driver Wanted
Date: 23 Sep 1995 00:55:37 -0400
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>So it is possible to mangle the data on a Worm drive then?  I was
>not aware of this.

I apparently did it once. I assumed that it just burned additional
bits, ie, 0010 can be mangled to 1111.  But maybe some drives are smart enough
to not allow writing to a sector that has been written to before.  

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