mzip

mzip(1)								      mzip(1)



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 HPUX. 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 addi-
	      tion 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 passwordless 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 adaptor’s BIOS setup).

       The ZipTools disk shipped with the drive is also	 password  protected.
       On  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 filesystem appears as a hidden file
       named ‘partishn.mac’.  You may erase it to  reclaim  the	 50  Megs  of
       space taken up by the Mac filesystem.


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
       This  manpage  has  been automatically generated from mtools’s texinfo
       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  repre-
       sentation  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 fol-
	      lowing commands:

		     ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi



       *      To generate a html copy,	run:

		     ./configure; make html

	      A	 premade  html	can be found at: ‘http://mtools.linux.lu’ and
	      also at: ‘http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools’

       *      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.




mtools-3.9.9			   03Mar03			      mzip(1)