[17559] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.23: I am trying to copy some of my stuff to XV, please let me know how should I use the zip drive ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Feb 17 19:45:05 2000
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:45:00 -0500 (EST)
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To: Firdos Alam Khan <firdos@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17435] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Please let me know how should I use the Zip drive in the Suncomputer ?
Hi, I'm sorry no one got back to you sooner. In the future you will
get a faster response to this sort of question if you run the olc
(on-line consulting) probram at the athena% prompt and ask the
question that way.
I've enclosed our consultants stock answer for people asking about zip
disks, hopefully it will help if you haven't already figured out how
to use zip disks:
Jonathon Weiss
jweiss@mit.edu
MIT/IS Athena Server Operations
Some of the SGI and Sun machines in the clusters should now have
Zip drives attached.
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The SGI machines have built-in support for zip drives; you can access
the contents as the /zip directory, like so.
ls /zip
eject /zip
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On Sun machines, you will need to use the mtools commands:
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
10 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 April 8 1998)
