news from the ATAPI-ZIP frontier

1999-03-05 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
I tried to use the ZIP-disk with the native file format: First i made everything clean dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwfd0 count=2 -- 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 0.040078 secs (25550 bytes/sec) then i invoced disklabel -rw wfd0 zip100 -- disklabel: ioctl

Re: news from the ATAPI-ZIP frontier

1999-03-05 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote: I tried to use the ZIP-disk with the native file format: when copying something to /mnt, i see with dmesg ata0: unwanted interrupt ata0: unwanted interrupt atapi_transfer: bad command phase I think this is fixed in the update I just committed. I

PS: news from the ATAPI-ZIP frontier

1999-03-05 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
PS: copying finished never and there was a complete freeze of the workstation, apart from the keyboard beep ... -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:fritz.heinrichme...@fernuni-hagen.de FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG Elektronische Schaltungen, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355

Re: news from the ATAPI-ZIP frontier

1999-03-05 Thread Alex Zepeda
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

Re: news from the ATAPI-ZIP frontier

1999-03-05 Thread Dan Nelson
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

Re: news from the ATAPI-ZIP frontier

1999-03-05 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: 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. It is an X app based on a cmdline app. But it also is a rather good source for ideas (SCSI