Use the "mt" command with the "datcompression" operation to reset the
count that controls hardware compression.  -kdp

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Bill Wagner wrote:

> Bill Wagner said:
> > Yes, uncompressed, the tape should hold 50Gb, compressed 100Gb.  I ran
> > "tapetype -e 22g -f /dev/st0 -t AIT-2".  And sorry for the stupid
> > qustion, but how do you disable hardware compression?
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> Doh!  I'm an utter idiot.  For some reason, I thought the -e flag was for
> transfer rates.  Sorry about that.  But I'd still like to know how to
> disable hardware compression.
>
> Bill
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