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 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 automati-
       cally 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  unfortu-
       nately  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 approxi-
       mative,  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.

mtools-4.0.13                                                28Feb10                                                     mzip(1)