mzip - change protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz
drive
Note of warning
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accurate or complete. See the end of this man page for
details.
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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