On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> How do i disable the hardware compression on my tape drive

That's hardware-specific. On some tape drives it's a jumper. On others you can
use mt.

> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 14:15, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Andreas Putzo wrote:
> > > On Thursday 23 September 2004 10:25, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> > > > I have a 40GB/80GB HP VS80 DLT Tape Drive. Now amanda is only able to
> > > > recognize 40 GB only how do i make it enable to utilize the 80GB space
> > > > on the tape. Is there any way out ???
> > > 
> > > Amanda uses the size you have specified in amanda.conf -> tapetype.
> > > Change tapetype to the correct value for your tapedrive and amanda will
> > > 'recognize' the lost space.
> > 
> > This drive really is a 40 GB drive. The 80 GB is (may) be available using
> > hardware compression, depending on the type of data.
> > 
> > Anyway, disable hardware compression on the drive, tell Amanda its size is 
> > 40
> > GB and to use software compression, and Amanda will be happy.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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