check out this wackiness in a removable hard drive sled inside a TASCAM MMR-8: It has a key lock, but the key lock doesn't lock the door, as you'd expect. Instead the lock is just a switch, and it communicates back with some board, which controls a solenoid to unlock the door. Now that's some paranoid over-design!
@foone I believe the software controlled lock was to keep from removing the drive before it had been unmounted (or otherwise made safe to remove).
@jhoward @foone this is what i assumed, seems like a great way to ensure the drive is in a state that‘s ready to be removed!