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- ziptool will turn write-protection on and off for ZIP disks including
- those that have been write-protected with a password. It can also
- eject the disk in your ZIP drive.
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- The ziptool program requires read/write access to the physical disk
- device, so it can only be run by root. It does not require any special
- kernel patches, and it works with both the SCSI and PPA versions of
- the drive. It makes a number of sanity checks to ensure that you don't
- attempt to manipulate a mounted disk, and that you are actually
- operating on a ZIP disk.
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- Not all protection modes supported by the hardware are available in
- Linux. In particular, there is a mode that prevents all access to the
- device until it is unlocked with a password. This mode is not
- supported, as Linux is unable to open such a disk anyway.
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- ZipTool commands
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- Ziptool's command syntax takes the form:
- ziptool device command
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- Where device is the full device name for the raw SCSI device
- corresponding to your ZIP drive, for example: /dev/sda, and command is
- one of the following: eject, ro, rw or status.
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- eject ejects the disk from your ZIP drive. ro puts the disk in the
- drive into read-only mode, the new mode is recorded on the disk volume
- and remains in effect for that volume until the rw command is used to
- change it. You can also change it with Iomega's own ZipTools programs
- under DOS or Windows, of course.
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- rw restores read-write permissions on the current disk volume. If the
- disk has been protected with a password, you will be prompted to enter
- that password before writing is enabled. You can use the status
- command to determine the current write-protection mode of the disk.
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- Whenever you change the mode on a disk, ziptool will eject the disk.
- This behaviour is necessary to ensure that Linux rereads the
- write-protect flag for the disk before attempting to use it again.
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