Gordon J. Mills III wrote:
> Just a note on this: 
> There needs to be a tape in the drive when you execute that command...at
> least on my drives. 
> Anyone have any further info on this?
>   
We've seen the same thing, the command fails if there's tapes in the
changer but not in the drive on our Exabyte LTO-3 unit. Also, we've
noticed that if the tape unit is reset (power failure, whatever) then it
resets back to compression *on*.

Graeme