Nope, i ruined about 25 zips disks by deguasing them. No way to reformat, nada. No
matter what, do not degaus
-----Original Message-----
From: Piet Barber [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 12:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Zip Disk Write Protect
All right. I give up.
I set this password on a zip disk a long time ago. I need the disk for
other things now.
(Why in the world I would want to password protect some old kernel
builds, I dunno)
Back in the day, I used the jaZip rpm (available in the contrib section)
to do this.
I wrote the password, then discovered that the write protection could be
turned on and off without password.
Neat fallback, huh?
But it doesn't work anymore. I've gone through a few re-installs since
then.
I can't even get jaZip to recognize the filesystem anymore.
Man, I've tried everything on this stupid zip disk.
I've even gone as far as to type
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
and
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
This did not work.
Putting it in Winblows, and trying to format the disk didn't work,
either.
Nothing works.
The frustration consumes me.
Somebody must know something out there in Linuxland.
Could I take a big Degausser to that puppy? Would that work? :)
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