Amanda-Users

RE: howto disable hardware compression on redhat linux

2003-09-22 14:38:24
Subject: RE: howto disable hardware compression on redhat linux
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: "Martinez, Michael" <MMARTINEZ AT CSREES.USDA DOT GOV>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:35:02 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 at 2:30pm, Martinez, Michael wrote

> The devices /dev/*st0
> 
> Various letters in front of "st0" mean different things, like 
>"no-rewind", "no-compress", etc.
> 

I've always used 'mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 0' for AIT style tapes and 
the appropriate density code for Exabyte style drives.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University