In the last episode (Mar 05), Alex Zepeda said:
> 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).
That sounds suspiciously like an X app. I use "mzip", which is part
of the mtools port. It lets you set/reset the password and software WP
bits on a zip disk.
-Dan Nelson
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