From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262153AbTKYJMQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:12:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262164AbTKYJMQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:12:16 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:9858 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262153AbTKYJMO (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:12:14 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Copy protection of the floppies Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:12:11 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5F0021EEA434D511BE7300D0B7B6AB530CA67677@mail2.ggn.hcltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jdKqhgJO4LwkveGwOxMGKHDMtcc= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Pravin Nanaware , Gurgaon" writes: > 1> Could somebody suggest me the way to protect floppy from copying it's > contents. It's obviously impossible. > 2> If not possible, will it be possible to make the copied floppy unworkable > (The copied floppy shouldn't work). Equally impossible. > For this I have constraint, I don't want to change the platform, which > reads this floppy. In that case, you want to do the impossible. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se