On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:15, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 3:37pm, John Oliver wrote > >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:05:03PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> > If you want to continue using software compression (let's >> > amanda be more accurate), then turn off compression at your >> > tape drive. >> >> For the life of me, I can't find how to disable hardware >> compression. Drive is a Quantum TH5AA DLT 4000. I found the >> Product Manual on Quantum's site, and it mentions that you *can* >> disable compression, but neglects to say how. Nothing I can >> find does :-( > >Is this on Linux? Try 'mt -f /dev/tape compression 0'. Of > course, replace /dev/tape with the proper device. You won't get > any feedback from mt, but I've found that tapeinfo (from the mtx > package) will tell you whether or not hardware compression is > enabled. Point tapeinfo at the generic device associated with > the tape drive. > >Again, this is all assuming Linux.
Thanks Joshua. I wasn't aware of that command till now. Quite informative that. Thank you. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
