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

       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  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.