How to disable writing to a floppy Drive

[eyschoi]

I want to keep the reading but remove the writing ability of a floppy drive. Is there any easy way such as to remove some cables in the floppy connector?

 

[ttown]

Never done it, but I'd guess that the sensor that detects if the write-protect tab is set should be able to be tweaked to "always sense a write-protect"

i think xp sp2 has a registry setting to disable floppy/media writes

 

[eyschoi]

Sound like a good idea. I will try to find the sensor.
Thanks

 

[spanky]

interesting... please post if u do turn up some solution.

 

[eyschoi]

It works after removing or shortening the front white plasitc pin on the left hand side of the floppy drive. The pin is in fact a trigger to enable the writing ability of the floppy. When the floppy disk is write protected, the pin will not be pressed downward and hence the trigger is off. However, if the pin is shortened, the trigger is off no matter whether the floppy disk is write protected or not.