Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

[Alan Cox]

> of disk to respond to host query to identify itself
> or to  host
> query to report it's DMA status??
> Please have a look at the error messages I had posted at
> http://www.sendspace.com/file/761te2

The trace clearly shows its bust or the cables are or similar. It's not a
"write protect" its simply broken.

On a write protected device you'd see quite different things