> I also shamelessly ripped off an idea that someone posted here with
> regard to ensuring HW compression is turned off.  Since you are also
> planning to run Linux, this should work for you.
> 
> in /etc/modules.conf:
> 
> post-install st mt datcompression off

The 'datcompression' subcommand doesn't exist in newer mt (redhat 8.0).
I use 'mt defcompression -1'.

Jean-Louis
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