On 10/1/19 11:51 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
Yep. Never forget -- there's a whole computer with its own OS in your flash drive. That "write protect" (sometimes) available as a physical switch is just communicated to your drivers via some protocol over USB.
I have two such drives, both old and small (128 MB). But, I have contemplated buying new drives with the write protect switch. For example:
https://www.kanguru.com/storage-accessories/kanguru-ss3.shtml
It was my expectation that the write-protect switch is read by the flash
drive controller, and that the flash drive controller will enforce
read-only behavior (e.g. prohibiting writes). Do you have information
indicating otherwise?
David