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

Do you know whether the key actually is intended to cause the lock to be unlocked? (Maybe the key was doing something wackier, while the solenoid was to declare the drive as safe for removal as @jhoward hypothesized.)