1 .TH mzip 1 "03Nov09" mtools-4.0.12
3 mzip - change protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz drive
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21 .iX "c Zip disk (utilities)"
22 .iX "c Jaz disk (utilities)"
23 .iX "c Ejecting a Zip/Jaz disk"
24 .iX "c Write protecting a Zip/Jaz disk"
27 .iX "c Tools disk (Zip and Jaz drives)"
28 .iX "c APlaceForYourStuff"
29 .iX "c password protected Zip disks"
31 The \fR\&\f(CWmzip\fR command is used to issue ZIP disk specific commands on
32 Linux, Solaris or HPUX. Its syntax is:
36 \&\fR\&\f(CWmzip\fR [\fR\&\f(CW-epqrwx\fR]
41 \&\fR\&\f(CWMzip\fR allows the following
48 Force eject even if the disk is mounted (must be given in addition to
52 Write protect the disk.
55 Remove write protection.
58 Password write protect.
64 Temporarily unprotect the disk until it is ejected. The disk becomes
65 writable, and reverts back to its old state when ejected.
70 To remove the password, set it to one of the passwordless modes
71 \&\fR\&\f(CW-r\fR or \fR\&\f(CW-w\fR: mzip will then ask you for the password, and
72 unlock the disk. If you have forgotten the password, you can get rid of
73 it by low-level formatting the disk (using your SCSI adaptor's BIOS
76 The ZipTools disk shipped with the drive is also password protected. On
77 Dos or on a Mac, this password is automatically removed once the
78 ZipTools have been installed. From various articles posted to Usenet, I
79 learned that the password for the tools disk is
80 \&\fR\&\f(CWAPlaceForYourStuff\fR\fR. Mzip knows about this
81 password, and tries it first, before prompting you for a password. Thus
82 \&\fR\&\f(CWmzip -w z:\fR unlocks the tools disk. The tools disk is
83 formatted in a special way so as to be usable both in a PC and in a Mac.
84 On a PC, the Mac filesystem appears as a hidden file named
85 \&\fR\&\f(CW\(ifpartishn.mac\(is\fR. You may erase it to reclaim the 50 Megs of space
86 taken up by the Mac filesystem.
90 This command is a big kludge. A proper implementation would take a
91 rework of significant parts of mtools, but unfortunately I don't have
92 the time for this right now. The main downside of this implementation is
93 that it is inefficient on some architectures (several successive calls
94 to mtools, which defeats mtools' caching).
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