How does one remove compression from a quantum dlt 4000 tape drive that uses dlt 4 tapes?
I have tried mt -f /dev/nst1 erase and then rewriting the amanda's tape label, but the drive always goes to 20GB compressed unless I do a density override and deselect the compression. My understanding is that these drives are to default to 20GB uncompressed and I would rather let amanda do the compression. As of now, I can set the density override each night when I load the tape, but I'd like the drive to default to this. The drives handbook talks about writing from BOT as a way to make changes to density, but it seems to me that using erase and then creating a new label would be from BOT. Any Helpful advice is much appreciated. -- Richard B. Tilley (Brad), System Administrator & Web Developer Virginia Tech, Office of the University Bursar Phone: 540.231.6277 Fax: 540.231.3238 Page: 557.0891 Web: http://www.bursar.vt.edu
