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In article <53stio$e9p@saturn.apana.org.au>,
	cam@orion.apana.org.au (Craig Miller) writes:
> Martin Hofmann (mih@anu.edu.au) wrote:
>: We recently got an Iomega zip drive.  Along with the drive
>: we were also given a zip disk with some Dogs software on it,
>: Ziptools.  The software is of no use but it would be nice
>: if we could use the disk.  The problem is is that the disk
>: is write protected with a password.  Does anyone know either
>: how to bypass the password or what the password is so that 
>: we can make use of the disk.
>: 
>: Thanks,
>: Martin
> 
> Is this on dos or linux ? parallel or scsi ?
> I just used mke2fs on my scsi drive tools disk with no problems :)
> There are now some linux zip tools at:
> http://www.torque.net/ziptool.html
> http://www.scripps.edu/~jsmith/jazip
> cheers
> cm

The machine is Linux only and the drive is scsi using the scsi 
controller card that came with the drive.
I have tried using ziptool to change the mode with the following results,
  joni.root 81: ./ziptool /dev/sda rw
  Password: stuffed	
  ziptool: set protection mode ioctl error

I have also tried using fdisk to change the partition table
but that doesn't work because the drive is write protected.

And I've tried mke2fs with the following results,
  joni.root 82: mke2fs /dev/sda4
  mke2fs 1.04, 16-May-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
  /dev/sda4: Read-only file system while setting up superblock

How did you do it???


Martin