Name¶
mzip - change protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz drive
Note of warning¶
This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo
documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See the end of
this man page for details.
Description¶
The mzip command is used to issue ZIP disk specific commands on Linux, Solaris
or HP-UX. Its syntax is:
mzip [-epqrwx]
Mzip allows the following command line options:
- e
- Ejects the disk.
- f
- Force eject even if the disk is mounted (must be given in addition to
-e).
- r
- Write protect the disk.
- w
- Remove write protection.
- p
- Password write protect.
- x
- Password protect
- u
- Temporarily unprotect the disk until it is ejected. The disk becomes
writable, and reverts back to its old state when ejected.
- q
- Queries the status
To remove the password, set it to one of the password-less modes -r or -w: mzip
will then ask you for the password, and unlock the disk. If you have forgotten
the password, you can get rid of it by low-level formatting the disk (using
your SCSI adapter's BIOS setup).
The ZipTools disk shipped with the drive is also password protected. On MS-DOS
or on a Mac, this password is automatically removed once the ZipTools have
been installed. From various articles posted to Usenet, I learned that the
password for the tools disk is APlaceForYourStuff. Mzip knows about this
password, and tries it first, before prompting you for a password. Thus mzip
-w z: unlocks the tools disk. The tools disk is formatted in a special way so
as to be usable both in a PC and in a Mac. On a PC, the Mac file system
appears as a hidden file named `partishn.mac'. You may erase it to reclaim the
50 Megs of space taken up by the Mac file system.
Bugs¶
This command is a big kludge. A proper implementation would take a rework of
significant parts of mtools, but unfortunately I don't have the time for this
right now. The main downside of this implementation is that it is inefficient
on some architectures (several successive calls to mtools, which defeats
mtools' caching).
See Also¶
Mtools' texinfo doc
Viewing the texi doc¶
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documentation. However, this process is only approximative, and some items,
such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in this translation
process. Indeed, these items have no appropriate representation in the manpage
format. Moreover, not all information has been translated into the manpage
version. Thus I strongly advise you to use the original texinfo doc. See the
end of this manpage for instructions how to view the texinfo doc.
- *
- To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the following
commands:
./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi
- *
- To generate a html copy, run:
./configure; make html
A premade html can be found at
`
http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/manual/mtools.html'
- *
- To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run:
./configure; make info
The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html. Indeed, in the info
version certain examples are difficult to read due to the quoting conventions
used in info.