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!
heh. The manual lists the approved hard drives for use with it.
I guess none of the letters in "SCSI" are "standard"!
@foone SCSI was less a standard than a constellation of notions relating to data transfer, with weird names (Fast SCSI, Fast Wide SCSI, Ultra SCSI, Ultra Wide SCSI, Electra Glide SCSI, Wide Glide SCSI, Fat Boy SCSI, or, wait, some of those are actually motorcycles)