How To Allow Writing To A Diskette - Sun Microsystems Enterprise 250 Owner's Manual

How to Allow Writing to a Diskette

You can physically protect a diskette (write-protect it) so that data cannot be erased
or overwritten. Once you have write-protected a diskette, additional information
cannot be saved on it. When you no longer want to protect the information on a
diskette, you can change it back to write-enable status and once again write and
store information on it.
What to Do
1. Turn the diskette upside-down and find the write-protect tab.
2. Push the tab away from the diskette's edge as far as it will go.
Use a ballpoint pen or other implement. When the notch is covered, the diskette
is write-enabled.
Figure 11–2
What Next
You can now write to the diskette. If the diskette hasn't been formatted, see:
4 "How to Use fdformat to Format a New Diskette" on page 217
If you want to change the diskette to write-protect status, see:
4 "How to Prevent Overwriting of a Diskette" on page 214
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Using Storage Devices