How to manipulate WPS drive object from cmd line?

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2 total messages Started by Keith Bennett Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00

#4915

Author: Keith Bennett
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00

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I have a Syquest EZFlyer (parallel port version) and need to have the
ability to switch cartridges on the fly.  (By default, one needs to
reboot to switch cartridges.)  The context menu of the drive object
for the Syquest drive has a choice labeled "Unlock cartridge" or
something similar.

This is a 2-level question:

1) How can I use Rexx or C++ so that a command line utility can be
called from my batch file to unlock the cartridge without user
intervention?

2) Is there a better way to achieve complete removability on this
drive?

Thanks for any help.
- Keith

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Keith Bennett                             Bennett Business Solutions, Inc.
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Re: How to manipulate WPS drive object from cmd line?

#4914

Author: Horst Kiehl
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:00

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In <543fmu$a1h@cpcug.org>,
kbennett@cpcug.org (Keith Bennett) writes:

> 1) How can I use Rexx or C++ so that a command line utility can be
> called from my batch file to unlock the cartridge without user
> intervention?

If you don't have to have all functionality in one REXX program file,
you could use the LOCK, UNLOCK and EJECT programs from the freeware
package FM/2 Utilities.

> 2) Is there a better way to achieve complete removability on this
> drive?

Don't know exactly what you mean, but if you want to use HPFS on these
drives, use another freeware package called HPFSREM (or something like
that) to ensure that the file system is in a consistent state before
unlocking and ejecting.

Hope this helps!

Horst

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