Glen Eustace wrote:
>
> It would seem that we have some kind of conflict with hardware and software
> compression. If both are on, the backups can not be restored. I have managed
> to turn off software compression and that seems to cure the problem but would
> prefer to do software and not hardware.
>
> I have tried turning off compression using 'mt -f tape setdensity 0x15',
> which seems to work but doesn't stick, the next time amanda writes to the
> drive it has gone back to 0x8c.
>
> This system is on RH6.2 on SPARC, is there anyway of permanently turning off
> compression on the Exb8500 ?
Try: "man stinit" and after you've created the proper device nodes
(search the archive for an earlier post of mine), add "post-install st
/sbin/stinit" to /etc/conf.modules. You already have the proper density
codes, so it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to get it all set
up.
Marty
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