On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:33:52PM +0200, Pixel wrote:
> Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
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> > Which is also needed if you want to use ziptools, so that's not a problem at
>
> can you tell more? what does it give more?
I'll just paste the description from freshmeat here:
Ziptool is a package that allows you to manipulate your Iomega Zip or Jaz
disk drives. This version is based on the work of Bob Willmot, Grant
Guenther, and Itai Nahshon and
has additional functionality. It now supports the 2GB Jaz, has the
ability to (un)lock the Drive Door, ability to (un)mount the disk, as well
as all functions of the previous
releases, e.g. modifying the protection mode of the disk, status check,
disk eject, etc.
http://www.novia.net/~segura/ziptool/
ziptool is in contrib
ide-scsi is also needed if you want to use GtkZip:
GtkZip is a program for maintaining your Iomega Zip drive disks under Linux.
It is based on a command line utility ziptool, and is written fully in C
using the GTK widget set.
It allows the user to mount/umount disks easily. An additional feature
is the ability to change (with password) the protection status of a disk.
GtkZip is part of the main distribution.
Enough?
> well:
>
> - backward compatibility
Really? Backward compatibility with what?
> - naming: your zip ends up as sda or sdb-something, just like scsi, the order
> depending upon the module insmod'ing order :-(
Well, sure. But if the main kernel would always use this, the user would
hardly notice it. I don't think that the majority of users would even
notice or care about *how* the drive is accessed.
> - and maybe others, like speed, but i don't know about that...
Don't know about speed either.
Well, put it in, and we'll see what breaks :-]
Alexander Skwar
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