On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 at 4:57pm, Tom Brown wrote

> > 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.
> 
> It is linux yes - will amanda use this command before writing to this device
> when amanda runs normally? How can one be sure that the hardware compression
> is permanently off?

I just put that command in the script that runs amdump each night.  You 
can also play with stinit, but I've never bothered.

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