> Actually Gene, for this drive disabling hardware compression isn't
> necessary.  It's an LTO/Ultrium drive, and those are actually smart enough
> to not compress already compressed data.  Notice (below) how he still gets
> the full 100GB native capacity?  With those drives, you get the best of
> both worlds -- you can mix software and hardware compression.  Very, very
> slick.

I can agree - We have a couple of autoloaders with these in and they have
reported very similar results while using amtapetype.

They are very neat indeed - And reliable so far

thanks