On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:36:19PM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> Sorry, I haven't messed with this myself. I'm currently staring at
> the Linux docs trying to figure out if I have to use ioctl in order
> to turn h/w compression on and off there.
Should be able to do it with mt(1). At least, that's
what I once did with a DLT-2000.
You might want to get the latest source. There seem to be
an awful lot of copies scattered over the net.
A search on www.tuxfinder.com for mt-st located mt-st-0.6.tar.gz,
newer than the 0.5b that mostly turned up. It was on a mirror
of metalab, previously sunsite.unc.edu, now www.ibibio.org.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/backup/mt-st-0.6.tar.gz
The 0.6 manpage notes that mt uses the MTCOMPRESSION ioctl, but that
this doesn't work on all tape drives.
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