On 28 Mar 2002 at 2:37pm, Eric Sproul wrote
> I'm not familiar with the "mode select" command. Is there a way for
> Amanda to do this whenever it writes to the drive? I tried using what I
> thought was the device corresponding to mode 3, nst0l (var. blocksize,
> no compression), but got "could not rewind /dev/nst0l: No such device or
> address" from tapetype. But it's there when I do an ls. I'm concerned
> that if I just use nst0, and the drive defaults to hardware compression,
> then it will screw me up.
>
I think you're looking for the mt command -- 'man mt'. Specifically, 'mt
compression {0|1}'.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
