From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 5 8:20:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F3F15094 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA31001; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:18:53 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:18:53 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Alex Zepeda Cc: =?unknown-8bit?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= , current Subject: Re: news from the ATAPI-ZIP frontier Message-ID: <19990305101853.A30864@dan.emsphone.com> References: <199903050949.KAA91411@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from "Alex Zepeda" on Fri Mar 5 02:23:03 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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