>We're not using HW compression, as far as I can tell. There is no
>reference to it in the tapetype (but that might not be where it's
>specified) or in the chio glue script.
You'd probably have to look at the lights on the drive (if it has them).
Hardware compression is enabled either by device name or some specific
command (e.g. "chdev" on AIX or "mt" on Linux -- I think). It may also
be auto-detected from whenever the tape was first written. It's not
in the tapetype, and the glue script may or may not force the issue
(probably not).
However ...
>Further digging revealed the following in the dmesg: ...
That error would appear to be the real culprit, not compression.
>Eric
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