Can you make a drive read only by a jumper?

[ziscwg]

I need to make an image of my tivo drive, but I don't want to make any changes to it.

Can you make a drive read only by a jumper or other hardware setting?

I believe the drive is a maxtor. I remember one of my old WD drives had a jumper setting for this. I could be wrong, or have been hammered at the time, but I remember something about it.

[Cong Sat]

Never seen it on IDE drives.

Always been a common thing on SCSI drives.

[unhappy_mage]

If you plug it in as a secondary disk, it won't likely be touched by Windows. Linux I'm sure won't, so you could use a Knoppix boot disk to do this, depending what you mean by "make an image of".

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/150072.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&tm=33&id=150072)http://www.hardfolding.com/utag.php/mem/1392.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=36&id=1392)

[eth00]

Linux will allow you to mount it read only.


mount -o ro /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3

If you are just making an image you can use dd to make an image without even mounting it which is the easiest thing to do. As posted above you can get a knoppix cd to boot into linux to do this. There may also be a windows way I am just not familiar with one

[ziscwg]

In the end I want to make an image of the current disk and expand that same image onto a larger 160 gb disk. Unfortunatly, the mfs tool I have tried, does not like the nforce chipset.

Is there a way to do this with a knoppix boot cd?

[unhappy_mage]

You could do the copying part of it, but I don't know of a tool than expands ntfs for linux.

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[drizzt81]

there was an article a couple of years back in the C't talking about this. It used to be able to be done with pulling the write line down to ground. However, this is not the case anymore, since in order to read a hdd, the ATA spec requires write access:

see http://www.heise.de/ct/03/23/196/default.shtml (bring a translator, if you do not speak/ read german)