Name
mzip - change protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz drive
Note of warning
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documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See the
end of this man page for details.
Description
The mzip command is used to issue ZIP disk specific commands 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 automatically 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 tools disk. The tools
disk is formatted in a special way 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
‘partishn.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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