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Re: ZIP autoeject?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant R. Guenther)
Fri Aug 29 14:53:53 1997
From: "Grant R. Guenther" <grant@knot.torque.net>
To: mstone@itri.loyola.edu (Michael Stone)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:44:02 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <19970829113018.15835@beijing.itri.loyola.edu> from "Michael Stone" at Aug 29, 97 11:30:18 am
> Iomega reccommends that zip disks be ejected before the machine is shut
> down, and their latest windows software does this automatically. I'd
> like to know if there's a way to get this effect using linux. I took a
> look at the 'eject' utility, but it only seems to support cdroms. Is
> there a similar utility for zip drives (or removable scsi drives in
> general)? Or, (perhaps better) a flag to autoeject on umount? If there
> isn't a utility, is there a kernel function I could use to write such a
> utility?
Find a copy of 'ziptool' and call it from some appropriate rc script.
The original ziptool is available from http://www.torque.net/ziptool.html
There are several 'improved' versions floating around ...
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