On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:48:30PM -0500, Eric Sproul wrote:
> 
> Jon,
> 
> I am using GNU mt 2.5, which does not have a "comp" command like the BSD
> version.  The closest I can see is "datcompression", but this is not a
> DAT drive.  Nevertheless, querying my drive with:
> 
> # mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression

Could also mean "dat from data"

> yielded:
> 
> Compression on.
> Compression capable.
> Decompression capable.
> 
> I set datcompression off, but I don't know what effect that will have
> since this really isn't DAT drive.

What does it report after you turn it off?
Results from tapetype with HW compression on are meaningless.
Make sure it is off while you run tapetype.

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