On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:51:16PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 11:27pm, marc.bigler AT day DOT com wrote
> 
> > I am using an Exabyte Eliant 820 tape drive on Linux kernel 2.4.18 and
> > would like to make sure the hardware compression is disabled. Does anyone
> > know how I can check that ?
> 
> For that drive, compression is controlled via density.  0x15 is 
> uncompressed.
> 

Isn't there a generic way of configuring it, like /dev/nst0 is the
non-rewinding device, isn't there a non compressing device? (I have the
same question actually about being sure a Dell tape is in non
compressing config, but I don't have the complete model details at hand....)

Raph


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