Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 02:23:03 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: news from the ATAPI-ZIP frontier Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903050218340.348-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199903050949.KAA91411@freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Søren Schmidt wrote: > I think this is fixed in the update I just committed. I still havn't > got a writeable ZIP media, but it should arrive soon. > Anybody knows how to disable the writeprotect on a ZIP disk WITHOUT > having to install DOS/WIN ?? There's a Linux program to do this.. check freshmeat, I think it's called gtkzip (actually I've got a copy here). What it appears to do is send a SCSI command to the ZIP drive (Linux has a SCSI over ATAPI driver to handle such things as ATAPI ZIPs). If you're looking for writable media try some of the non-iomega disks (Verbatim has a two pack for $13/disk, dunno if they sell in Europe), or buy enough ZIP drives to become an Iomega preferred customer (I've seen 5 for 1 and 20 for the price of 5 dealies). From the README: Author: KaYue Mak E-mail: gtkzip@yahoo.com Homepage: http://home.netvigator.com/~sallymak/gtkzip - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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