From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Jan 26 17:33:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10444 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:33:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from colossus.dyn.ml.org (dburr@206-18-112-190.la.inreach.net [206.18.112.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10434 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:33:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr@colossus.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from dburr@localhost) by colossus.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA02072; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:34:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:32:18 -0800 (PST) Organization: Starfleet Command From: Donald Burr To: Dale Ghent Subject: RE: Jazz disks (was: Re: Minor annoyances with ZIP Plus) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- My secret spy satellite informs me that on 26-Jan-98, Dale Ghent wrote: >One off-topic question I have.... is there a utility around you can use >to >turn off RO on a Jazz disk? The setup isa bit retarded... there no >shutter >you open or close to wrte-protect a jaxx disk... You have to make the >disk >that comes with the drive rw by using a windows-only utility. Is there >something comperable to theis util I can compile up and use to unlock the >disk? Check out: http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html On this page, there is a utility called ziptool.c, which does what you ask (and more) for Iomega Zip drives. It may or may not (I don't know which) work for Jaz disks. Go ahead and get the code and try it, and you can e-mail the maintainer for more info or questions. - --- Donald Burr - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNM05jPjpixuAwagxAQG3JgP/QZgyIS8sRbD7dp7ntlQxtT9A4gOQ8JTQ 4avI06A/vYEmeOAHmm1+3fTTVGeymr30h2kJtTdliFw0BVCrz2DfL+vsRiD/iXyE YUX2z1L94QtnisHLvM+Lfr4lZm2zbHrhw7Nrgf9lbPqQm1irRCvXT6VfS5+C6XMa Wf2ZddmN5M0= =xQ8A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----