On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 at 4:46pm, Tom Brown wrote

> > Fuji's documentation for tapes shows two IBM models, the rated
> > speeds for the models are 7.5 and 15 MB/s.
> >
> > Your 12.9 seems reasonable.  Far cry from the previous 2.9 :)
> >
> > Is the comment correct, was HW compression ON?  Should not have been.
> > A tapetype report should show the "native" capacity.
> 
> It appears to be on yes - i'm currently trying to get a response from the
> vendor to tell me how to turn it off. The manual does not tell me.

ISTR you saying this is Linux?  If so, then 'mt compression 0' should do 
it.  You can check the status by pointing 'tapeinfo' (from the mtx 
distribution) at the generic device associated with your tape drive.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University