On Tue, 22 May 2001, Erin Kenneally wrote: > In a nutshell, this adapter is hardware-based and thus works at the physical > level to block writes to IDE drives. The adapter simply accepts all 'write' > commands but fails to act upon them. Specifically, all 'write' commands are > trapped through the SCSI command set. Furthermore, the recent modifications > in the firmware continues to block write commands, but reports (spoofs) an > acknowledgement to the contrary- i.e., that it has written the requested > data- to the requesting application. This allows many Windows backup/imaging > programs to continue, without failure -- whereas most will hang after not > receiving a signal that the 'write' was completed. I saw a demo of a similar device from Guidance Software (EnCase) at SANS Baltimore last week: http://www.guidancesoftware.com/encase/fastbloc_promo.htm Are these based on the same thing, or competing products, or what? Ryan
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