Hi! I have a Seagate DDS-3 drive, attached to a FreeBSD 4.5-release computer. When ever the system restarts, it by default turns on hardware compression. As I wish to use software compression, this could present a problem. I tried writing a shell script that would run at startup which basically called "mt -f /dev/nrsa0 comp off". However, when I tested it (I had to restart anyways, as I was moving the machine), I got the error "mt: /dev/nrsa0: device not configured" -- ie, there isn't a tape in the drive (as I had ejected the tape before shutting down). I tried a few tests, and have verified that I can't seem to turn off compression on the drive unless a tape is in it.
So, in order to work around this, I have modified amdump, and put at the _very_ start, the 'mt -f /dev/nrsa0 comp off' line. This is, however, rather a hack. I would much rather be able to do this at startup, as it should be done. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might go about accomplishing this? Failing that, is there some more compatible way to add this to Amanda? Thanks, Ricky ----------------------------------------------------- Richard Morse System Administrator MGH Biostatistics Center 50 Staniford St. Rm 560 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617/724-9830
