From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 5 7:26:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-27.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B36B15118 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 07:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA14973; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 02:23:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 02:23:03 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda To: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Cc: current Subject: Re: news from the ATAPI-ZIP frontier In-Reply-To: <199903050949.KAA91411@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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