[Info-vax] Gen-Z, a new memory interconnect on the horizon.

[Michael Moroney]

Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:

>>> I wouldn't mind seeing physical write protect switches for today's
>>> disk drives.
>>>
>>> Simon.
>>>
>>
>> Agree .. and would extend this to USB disks as well.
>>
>> We used to have USB sticks with a small switch on them for this.
>>
>> It was a great way to ensure viruses did not infect the disk and
>> read-only backups remained read-only.

>Seems to still beeing available:

>https://www.amazon.com/Kanguru-Flash-Physical-Protect-switch/dp/B008OGNM8E


SD cards (at least the full sized ones) have a write protect slider, and
there may be a programming command to writelock the disk.  I have no
idea whether these would even work on VMS (with a USB-SD adaptor, of
course)