On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, S?ren Schmidt wrote: > I think this is fixed in the update I just committed. I still havn't > got a writeable ZIP media, but it should arrive soon. > Anybody knows how to disable the writeprotect on a ZIP disk WITHOUT > having to install DOS/WIN ??
There's a Linux program to do this.. check freshmeat, I think it's called gtkzip (actually I've got a copy here). What it appears to do is send a SCSI command to the ZIP drive (Linux has a SCSI over ATAPI driver to handle such things as ATAPI ZIPs). If you're looking for writable media try some of the non-iomega disks (Verbatim has a two pack for $13/disk, dunno if they sell in Europe), or buy enough ZIP drives to become an Iomega preferred customer (I've seen 5 for 1 and 20 for the price of 5 dealies).
