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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP Tools
- From: flohoff@dataland.owl.de (Florian Lohoff)
- Message-ID: <flohoff.065o@dataland.owl.de>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 96 14:08:37 CET
-
- On Wed 3-Jan-1996 19:30 , Chris Clarizio wrote:
- CC> 'Night Manager' (bros@cadvision.com) wrote:
- CC> : wnear@epix.net (William Near) wrote:
-
- CC> : >Is the ZIP Tools package worth buying?
-
- CC> : Only if you like to eject your disks from your keyboard. They
- CC> work.
-
- CC> Also, you can use the disk protection features of the Zip disks. You can
- CC> READ protect disks with a password. This is especially usefull if you
- CC> have children (or other more sensitive people around) and like to keep
- CC> things they should not see (example: 100 megs of XXX pics). You can also
- CC> WRITE protect disks to keep the little ones from accidentally deleting
- CC> important files or formatting disks with un-replaceable data. Lastly,
- CC> they give you a dos driver for the drive so when you put in a disk the
- CC> icon pops up on screen. I don't know if others found a convienient way
- CC> around this, but I (not too comp. literate) needed to manually re-scan
- CC> the SCSI bus after I put a disk in the drive (only for the first disk
- CC> after a boot).
-
- CC> ---CSC
-
- I think you can work around that. Make yourself a mountlist for the Zip drive
- using FFS or whatever you normally use. Then you put this into you
- Devs/Dosdrivers. Now you switch of automount for you Zip Disc. Normally you
- now should get the Disks also you had none in yous drive on Bootup.
-
- Also with the eject thing. There are hundreds of SCSI Eject tools on Aminet. I
- myself have to use one for my CDRom (Internal Apple 300, no eject Button).
-
- Flo
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