"Gordon J. Mills III" <Gordon.Mills AT usa DOT net> writes:

> 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.

Read the stinit manpage, make an entry for your tape drive in
/etc/stinit.def :

  {buffer-writes read-ahead async-writes}
  
  manufacturer=QUANTUM model=SDLT600 {
  mode1 blocksize=0 compression=0
  }

... and run stinit on boot. Works for me.

        Sven