On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 at 3:26pm, Paul Bijnens wrote

> Toralf Lund wrote:
> > Ah, yes, of course. No, hardware compression is not supposed to be on. 
> > But I'm not sure it isn't... In fact, now that to mention it, I suspect 
> > it's on after all. I'll a have a closer look. And I very much doubt that 
> > the drive will auto-detect compressed data.
> 
> amtapetype will tell you too if hardware compression is on.

On Linux (at least), so will 'tapeinfo', which comes with mtx.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University