* Martin Oehler <martin.oehler AT gmx DOT net> (Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:11:39PM 
+0100)
> Hi!
> 
> Am Fre, 2003-01-24 um 16.22 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > On Friday 24 January 2003 08:53, Martin Oehler wrote:
> > >Why is the length the same? Seems like switching the compression
> > > modes with mt is not working.
> > 
> > It was still on?  You didn't say that you had turned it back off 
> > above.  Maybe this drive has a compression scheme like the DDS 
> > drives do, whereby it records the compression status in a hidden 
> > header, and resets it to match that tape when the tape is next 
> > scanned at insertion.  In which case see my rough outline of what 
> > it takes to turn those flags off, in a previous message earlier 
> > today.
> 
> I'm sorry, I made a mistake. The hardware compression was off
> all the time. :(

That's exactly what it looked like ;)

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