Re: How to turn on/off hardware compression

[John R. Jackson]

>I am using SUN DDS3 tape device and SunOS 5.7. How can I turn on/off the
>hardware compression in this device? I cannot find any command such as
>"datcomp" or "comp" in "mt" man page.

Compression is controlled by the device name.  See "man st".

If you want compression, use (e.g.) /dev/rmt/0mn.  If you don't, use
/dev/rmt/0ln.

>- Sam

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]