[40763] in Hotline Meeting
Zip disk's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John J Morey)
Tue Nov 18 14:03:00 1997
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 14:02:56 EST
From: John J Morey <jjmorey@MIT.EDU>
Some of the SGI and Sun machines in the clusters should now have
Zip drives attached. To read a DOS formatted Zip disk on one of these
machines:
athena% add -f mtools
athena% mdir z:
You can also use some of the other mtools programs. For more
information on using mtools, refer to the stock answer:
25* WORKSTATIONS Answers
11 Using disks with DOS format
Zip disks seem to come pre-partitioned in 3 ways:
Drive z: is for a zip disk with 4 partitions. If using z: does
not work for you, you might want to try x: for a disk with one partition
or y: for a disk with no partitions.
Another useful command is the mzip command. It has the following
options:
e Ejects the disk.
f Force eject even if the disk is mounted.
r Write protect the disk.
w Remove write protection.
p Password write protect.
x Password protect
q Queries the status
So
athena% mzip -e z:
should eject the zip disk.
You may also be able to use mtools with zip disks under Linux or
NetBSD, but you will probably need to specify a line like this in your
~/.mtoolsrc file to identify the zip device:
drive z: file="/dev/sda1" partition=4 scsi=1 nodelay
This line assigns drive z to be the first scsi device on a Linux system
and specifies that the disk will have 4 partitions. This is the entry
that would be used for a parallel port zip drive on a system without
other SCSI devices. (You'll need to compile your Linux kernel with
support for SCSI_PPA)
For more information about setting up a ~/.mtoolsrc file:
athena% man mtools
or look at /mit/mtools/lib/mtools.conf for examples of the format.
You'll need to add -f mtools first.
(last updated Aug 21 1997)
