jaztool1

Usage

Overview

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:

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.