Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:18:53 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: =?unknown-8bit?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk>, current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: news from the ATAPI-ZIP frontier Message-ID: <19990305101853.A30864@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903050218340.348-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>; from "Alex Zepeda" on Fri Mar 5 02:23:03 GMT 1999 References: <199903050949.KAA91411@freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903050218340.348-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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In the last episode (Mar 05), Alex Zepeda said: > 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). That sounds suspiciously like an X app. I use "mzip", which is part of the mtools port. It lets you set/reset the password and software WP bits on a zip disk. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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