Sven, if you don't mind my asking...how did you setup stinit? I installed it
but it seems a bit confusing as to what I need to do to have it disable
compression on reboots, etc.

Thanks,
Gordon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sven Rudolph [mailto:Sven_Rudolph AT drewag DOT de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:02 AM
> To: Graeme Humphries
> Cc: Gordon.Mills AT usa DOT net; 'amanda users list'
> Subject: Re: Disabling LTO-2 hardware compression
> 
> Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com> writes:
> 
> > 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*.
> 
> Use stinit from mt-st, it resets these parameters whenever an 
> open(2) on the device is done.
> 
>       Sven
> 
>