On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:15, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 3:37pm, John Oliver wrote
>
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:05:03PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain 
wrote:
>> > If you want to continue using software compression (let's
>> > amanda be more accurate), then turn off compression at your
>> > tape drive.
>>
>> For the life of me, I can't find how to disable hardware
>> compression. Drive is a Quantum TH5AA DLT 4000.  I found the
>> Product Manual on Quantum's site, and it mentions that you *can*
>> disable compression, but neglects to say how.  Nothing I can
>> find does :-(
>
>Is this on Linux?  Try 'mt -f /dev/tape compression 0'.  Of
> course, replace /dev/tape with the proper device.  You won't get
> any feedback from mt, but I've found that tapeinfo (from the mtx
> package) will tell you whether or not hardware compression is
> enabled.  Point tapeinfo at the generic device associated with
> the tape drive.
>
>Again, this is all assuming Linux.

Thanks Joshua.  I wasn't aware of that command till now.  Quite 
informative that.  Thank you.

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