NAME
jaztool - utility to manipulate Iomega JAZ drives
SYNOPSIS
jaztool <dev> <command>
DESCRIPTION
is a utility that allows manipulation of an Iomega JAZ drive.
<dev> must be the full name of a scsi device, eg: /dev/sdc, note that you must not specify a partition on the device. <command> can be one of:
- eject
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- ejects the disk in the drive
- ro
-
- puts the disk into read-only mode, and ejects
- rw
-
- puts the disk into read-write mode, and ejects
- status
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- prints the read/write status of the disk
If the disk is in a password protected mode, you will be prompted for a password when you attempt to change the mode. This version of jaztool does not officially support putting the disk into the password protected read-only mode, but the command 'PWRO' will do this if you are really sure that you want to. REMEMBER: if you forget the password, you will not be able to put the disk back into read-write mode.
NOTE: The JAZ drive also supports a protection mode 5, under which the disk is neither readable nor writable until it is unlocked with a password. This program cannot unlock a disk in mode 5 - as Linux is unable to open a disk that is not readable. To support this feature would require patching the Linux kernel. (And therefore, there is no command to put a disk into this mode, either.)
Whenever you change the write-protection mode, jaztool ejects the disk. This is done to ensure that Linux will recheck the mode before it attempts to use the disk again.
AUTHOR
This program was written by Bob Willmot, and is maintained for Debian Linux by Bdale Garbee.
SEE ALSO
See http://www.cnct.com/~bwillmot/jaztool/ for more information. A copy of the JAZ drive mini-HOWTO is included in /usr/doc/jaztool for your convenience.