Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:29:44 -0700
JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a system util to use to issue
> a command to a hard drive to remove
> write protect?
> I had thought hdparm might do it, but
> the man page makes no mention of such
> feature in hdparm.

SATA or some kind of USB thing ?

If its SATA I'm not aware of a standard way to do it or of drives having
the feature for that matter. Check for a jumper and also if its suddenely
gone read-only perhaps its doing that because its failed ?

What makes you think it's gone read only ?

Alan