


HPFLIP(8)                                               HPFLIP(8)


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       hpflip - flip device type of HP optical disk drives

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       hhppfflliipp --aa _b_._t_._l [ --rr ]

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       The  hhppfflliipp  program  will  read a Vendor Unique mode page
       from an HP Optical disk drive, and  convert  the  _k_i_n_d  of
       device  it  is. It can either be a OPTICAL device type, or
       it can be a DIRECT ACCESS  device  type.  Typically,  most
       systems  have  drivers that can deal with removable DIRECT
       ACCESS device types (often limited to 512 byte/sector for-
       matted  disks). Such systems do not often also have device
       drivers for  OPTICAL  device  types.  The  hhppfflliipp  program
       allows you to control how an HP Optical Disk Drive reports
       itself, and thus makes this device available where it oth-
       erwise would have required an additional device driver.

       The required --aa argument must be used to select a specific
       ordinal SCSI address (see _l_i_b_s_c_s_i(8)).

       The optional --rr argument can be used to  reset  the  named
       device  to  Optical,  irrespective  of it's current state.
       Without this argument, the device is just flipped  between
       OPTICAL and DIRECT ACCESS types.

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