From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Jan 26 17:46:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11647 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:46:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11641 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:46:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrcpu@cdsnet.net) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id RAA06800; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:46:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:46:28 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: Dale Ghent , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jazz disks (was: Re: Minor annoyances with ZIP Plus) In-Reply-To: <199801261808.LAA13940@pluto.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just scsifmt the little suckers, and the ro bit goes away. Use dozens of them this way. Or low-level format them from the Adapter BIOS. Either way. On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Justin T. Gibbs 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? > > > > -Dale > > Unfortunately I don't own a Jaz, but if I could get my hands on one I > could sniff the SCSI bus and write a program to do it. My guess is that > it's a vendor specific command, but there may be something in the SCSI > spec to do this. > > -- > Justin > >