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- jaztool 1.0
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- Iomega Jaz Tool for Linux
-
-
- Usage: jaztool <dev> <command>
-
- where <dev> must be the full name of a scsi device, eg: /dev/sdc, note
- that you must not specify a partition on the device. <command> can
- be one of:
-
- eject ejects the disk in the drive
- ro puts the disk into read-only mode, and ejects
- rw puts the disk into read-write mode, and ejects
- status prints the read/write status of the disk
-
- If the disk is in a password protected mode, you will be prompted for
- a password when you attempt to change the mode. This version of
- jaztool does not officially support putting the disk into the password
- protected read-only mode, but the command 'PWRO' will do this if you
- are really sure that you want to. REMEMBER: if you forget the password,
- you will not be able to put the disk back into read-write mode.
-
- NOTE: The JAZ drive also supports a protection mode 5, under which the
- disk is neither readable nor writable until it is unlocked with a
- password. This program cannot unlock a disk in mode 5 - as Linux is
- unable to open a disk that is not readable. To support this feature
- would require patching the Linux kernel. (And therefore, there is no
- command to put a disk into this mode, either.)
-
- Whenever you change the write-protection mode, jaztool ejects the disk.
- This is done to ensure that Linux will recheck the mode before it attempts
- to use the disk again.
-
- This distribtion includes a binary version (jaztool) compiled with
- gcc 2.7.2 on the Linux 2.0.7 kernel
-
- You can get the Latest verison at:
-
- http://www.cnct.com/~bwillmot/jaztool/
-
-
- Bob Willmot
- bwillmot@cnct.com
- http://www.cnct.com/~bwillmot/
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- $Id: README,v 1.3 1996/07/27 17:50:31 root Exp $