mzip  -  change  protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz
       drive


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       accurate or complete.  See the end of this  man  page  for
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Description

       The  mzip  command is used to issue ZIP disk specific com­
       mands on Linux, Solaris or HPUX. Its syntax is:

       mzip [-epqrwx]

       Mzip allows the following command line options:

       e      Ejects the disk.

       f      Force eject even if the disk is  mounted  (must  be
              given in addition to -e).

       r      Write protect the disk.

       w      Remove write protection.

       p      Password write protect.

       x      Password protect

       u      Temporarily unprotect the disk until it is ejected.
              The disk becomes writable, and reverts back to  its
              old state when ejected.

       q      Queries the status

       To  remove the password, set it to one of the passwordless
       modes -r or -w: mzip will then ask you for  the  password,
       and  unlock the disk.  If you have forgotten the password,
       you can get rid of it by  low-level  formatting  the  disk
       (using your SCSI adaptor's BIOS setup).

       The  ZipTools disk shipped with the drive is also password
       protected.  On Dos or on a Mac, this password is automati­
       cally removed once the ZipTools have been installed.  From
       various articles posted to  Usenet,  I  learned  that  the
       password  for  the tools disk is APlaceForYourStuff.  Mzip
       knows about this password,  and  tries  it  first,  before
       prompting you for a password.  Thus mzip -w z: unlocks the

       so  as  to  be usable both in a PC and in a Mac.  On a PC,
       the Mac filesystem appears as a hidden  file  named  `par­
       tishn.mac'.   You  may  erase it to reclaim the 50 Megs of
       space taken up by the Mac filesystem.


Bugs

       This command is a big  kludge.   A  proper  implementation
       would  take  a  rework of significant parts of mtools, but
       unfortunately I don't have the time for  this  right  now.
       The  main  downside  of  this implementation is that it is
       inefficient  on  some  architectures  (several  successive
       calls to mtools, which defeats mtools' caching).


See Also

       Mtools' texinfo doc


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