hello Isaac,
this is an example, but if your auto-rewind device is /dev/st0,
the non-rewind device is /dev/nst0.
If you want to crontol hardware compression on/off , you may
use the "mt" command (have a look at the man page)
for example:
mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression off
.. but compression control may depend on your tape device
SCSI implementation.
Pierre.
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am fairly new to Linux Administration, new enough to not know very much
> about tape drives at all. I have a Sony DAT SCSI tape drive that uses 4
> GIG/8 GIG with hardware compression tapes. I am trying to set it up with
> AMANDA but I have no idea which device is the no-rewind tape device and
> not even the faintest clue about how to tell if hardware compression is
> enabled or disabled.
>
> Is there anyone out there that can guide me to any resources that will
> help me out, or better yet tell me how to know what tape devices are what
> in Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman) Kernel 2.2.12-20 on an i586? Any
> help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your time
> Isaac D. Flemming
