You've got it backwards. Covering the hole write-protected the disk.

Chuck


On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Armen Babikyan wrote:

> At 3:40 PM -0400 6/10/98, Simon Raahauge DeSantis wrote:
> >On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> >> If you have any old boxes of 5.25" disks, their write protect tabs work
> >> nicely for this purpose, since they were designed to wrap around the edge
> >> of a disk and stick w/o flaking off in the drive.  FWIW, they're also
> >> great for re-recording video and audio tapes....  Now, if some company
> >> would just start making those again and repackaging them....
> >
> >I do have a few old shoe-boxes of 5.25" disks (Various parts and pieces of
> >different versions of AIX 2.x.x), but I don't know what the write proctect
> >tab would look like...
> >
> 
> If you look at the disk on a flat surface, with the exposed part toward
> you, either one of the two sides has a little cutout on it, about half a
> centimeter square.  with these old disks, you were supposed to take a piece
> of tape (provided in the box) and wrap it around the disk to make the
> cutout disappear, making it writeable (or write protected? i assume it's
> the same as normal 3.5" disks).
> 
>   - a
> 
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