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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Technically maybeI guess you could remove pin23 from the hard drive's ribbon cable connector- that's the only pin that's dedicated to "write" operations and would physically stop the "write" commands getting to your HDD while allowing the "read" operations.
pinouts.ws/ata-ide-pinout.html
It's nothing that someone with a careful hand and good soldering iron couldn't get around, so don't rely on it for a court case or anything. But for data storage I think it should do.
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