Hello,
Most likely the compression is enabled on the drive, you can query that by 
utilizing  NTUTIL ( IBM) or similar utility that comes with the drive\Lib 
Vendor.
HTH



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kurianv wrote:
> hi,
> thanx for the valuable suggestions...but davina how can we force the 
tape drives not to compress if we are using "NT with compressed 
directives".
> 

This is driver dependent. I am not sure how you would do it in Windows. 
In Solaris you would choose the hbn device rather than the cbn device.

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