ziptool(1)
NAME
jaztool, ziptool - Tool for Iomega JAZ and ZIP drives
SYNOPSIS
jaztool option device [mountdir] ziptool option device [mountdir]
DESCRIPTION
Disk write-protection is done by software for Iomega's JAZ
and ZIP drives. jaztool and ziptool make these features
available for Linux. Before performing any protection mode
changes, it is checked that device is actually a JAZ or
ZIP drive and that no partition of the inserted disk is
currently mounted.
OPTIONS
-e Eject the disk.
- -ro Make disk read-only. If the current mode is pro
- tected by a password, you are prompted for it.
- -rp Make disk read-only and protect this mode with a
- password. The maximum length of a password is 33
characters. - WARNING: Don't forget the password! Otherwise you
will have to reformat the disk in order to remove
write-protection. - -rw Remove any protection from the disk. If the cur
- rent mode is protected by a password, you are
prompted for it. - -ld Lock the Drive door so the disk cannot be ejected.
- Only works if the disk is already mounted.
- -ud Unlock the Drive door
- -m Mount the device dev4 on [dir], then lock the door
- (like -ld)
- -u Unmount the device dev4.
- -s Get the current protection status. Supported modes
- are:
unprotected
write-protected
password write-protected
BUGS
Changing password if the disk is password write-protected
is currently not supported. If you want to change the
password now you first have to remove protection from the
disk or put it into the write protected mode and after
that switch it back to password write-protected mode.
Not all protection modes offered by the JAZ and ZIP drives
can be supported under Linux (i.e. password read and
write-protected mode).
AUTHOR
Mirko Kraft (Mirko.Kraft@ixos.de)
Modified Slightly to Support 2GB Drives, and -m -u -ld -ud
features by Aaron Segura (aaronsegura@netscape.net)
09/25/99
- ziptool is based on the great work of Grant R. Guenther
(grant@torque.net) and Itai Nahshon. jaztool was origi
nally written by Bob Willmot (bwillmot@cnct.com,
http://www.cnct.com/~bwillmot).