On Wed April 23 2003 12:35, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>The latest amanda 2.4.4 has a program "amtapetype" that detects
>>>the hardware compression settings of a drive.  (It's time to
>>>upgrade anyway :-)
>>
>> Thats 'tapeinfo' Paul. :-)  amtapetype checks the tape in the
>> drive for its actual capacity, and since it uses /dev/urandom as
>> its data source, it won't get very close to 12 gigs if the
>> hardware compressor is on.
>
>Tapeinfo works fine on those systems that have it... :-)
>Solaris e.g. does not have it.
>
>And yes indeed, the latest amtapetype does detect hardware
> compression without using any low level ioctl that is usually
> very device/OS specific.  (I know, because I wrote it.  :-)
>Try with a scratch tape:
>
>       amtapetype -c
>
>(this takes on on a few minutes to run).

And thats something I didn't know.  Thanks, Paul

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