In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joshua Baker-LePain writes: > On Thu, 23 May 2002 at 12:03pm, David Chin wrote > > > > > Has anyone figured out how to turn hardware compression on and off on > > a Sony SDX-D500C AIT-2 tape drive via software? The manual indicates > > that this is possible by providing a DIP switch to enable/disable this > > feature. > > What OS? In Linux, it's controlled via mt: > > 'mt compression 1' turns it on, and > 'mt compression 0' turns it off. > > On other OSes, it can often be controlled via device names, i.e. > /dev/rmt/0cn (compressions) vs. /dev/rmt/0n. You can also do this in > Linux via stinit.
Yup, Linux. Thanks for the tip! --Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]
