On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 at 2:46pm, Paul G. Allen wrote

> My changer has an HP35480A DAT drive. Should I enable drive compression
> for use with Amanda and NOT use software compression for backups, or
> should I disable the drive compression and use software compression for
> backups? The compression on these drives is enabled/disabled with DIP
> switches. It can be controlled through software, IF the SCSI driver
> supports it and it looks like scsi-changer does not (I have no
> indication that I am able to turn the drive compression on/off, even
> though the DIP switches are currently set to allow it).

http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/27.html

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University