Under Linux you can call the following to disable compression.

      mt -f /dev/st0 nocompression

The other method would be the disable a DIP switch or jumper on the
tape drive.

I include the above line in my startup scripts. It would appear it
only needs to be set at boot.

Russell

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:27:11PM +0100, marc.bigler AT day DOT com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> Thanks
> Regards