On 20 Mar, Thought wrote: Re: Hi all, it's me again. First off thanks for the numerous replies to my Re: chmodding question :)
[snip] Re: Here's another quick question: I have an Iomega Zip drive, and Re: occasionally I get the message: Re: sda: Write Protect is off Re: sda: sda4 Re: when mounting. Is there a command out there somewhere to write Re: protect/unprotect disks? And why is it sda4 instead of sda1? (Ooops, I Re: guess that's two questions!) There is a package named ziptools, it's not debianized but will let you change writeprotection and a couple of other things: * set to readonly * set to read/write * query status * software ejection of disk Available at http://www.torque.net/ziptool.html sda4 is because that's the way the disks come from Iomega, why they format them like that isn't clearly understood (AFAIK). On those disks that I reformat to ext2, I change the partion table to sda1 will no ill effects [snip] /Michael -- | Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | | Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d1temp |
