On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:41:35PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:59, stan wrote:
> >I had 2 Amanda instances, one hosted on FreebSD, and the other on and
> >Progeny Linux machine. I lost the root disk on the Linux server, and
> > I'm building a replacement machine.
> >
> >Looking at the script that is run on the FreebSD machine I see that I
> > do a "nt comp off" to make certain that compression is off on the
> > tape drive, before I start the Amanda run.
> >
> >I'm building the replacement machine on an Ubuntu Linux machine, and
> > looking at the man page for mt it does not seem to support this
> > command.
> >
> >What are people with Linux hosts using to accomplish making certain
> > that the tape drive is in uncompressed mode? I'm using an Ultrim 3
> > (HP) drive for the replacement machine, as well as (for recovery
> > purposes) the existing Quantum DLT80 drive, if it matters. The DLT
> > drive has front panel buttons to control this, but the U3 drive does
> > not BTW.
> 
> Under solaris, and in recent versions of the linux kernel, the devices 
> have been proliferated such that one can control the use of compression 
> via the alias used for the devices name.
> 
Thanks.

Iwas aware of this in olaris, but had not run into it in the Linux
world. 

See my other reply as to why this box is not running Soalris.

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