External Write Blocker

[gillamos]

I  need an external write blocker that works with an external optical drive (CD / DVD drive) and also an external floppy drive.

We bought a Tableau T8U but it doesn't recognise the optical drive. Tableau tell me they have nothing that will work.

It needs to be external as it gets attached to more than one PC (quarantine and then network).

Any suggestions please.

[Michael Kjörling]

On 2 Jun 2017 06:37 -0700, from digital-...@googlegroups.com ('gillamos' via Digital Curation):

> I need an external write blocker that works with an external optical drive
> (CD / DVD drive) and also an external floppy drive.

There used to exist, but I can't seem to find any new with a cursory
search, external read-only CD/DVD drives (no burning functionality, so
no need to block anything because the drive is physically unable to
write to the media). Maybe something like that could work for you?

If nothing else it should be possible to source a second-hand drive,
but you may have to do a bit of looking around and research the model
on offer to make sure it's really just a reader and not a burner.

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