Just for your information, on my Linux mtx's version (Slackware 8.1 with a 2.4.18 kernel) there is no such option "nocompression" to mtx... But there are the options defcompression and compression which can be set to 0 then it looks like that compression is disabled...
PS: thanks Joshua for your help Regards Russell Adams To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <RLAdams@kelsey-sey cc: bold.com> Subject: Re: Disabled hw compression Sent by: owner-amanda-users@ amanda.org 02/18/03 04:54 PM Under Linux you can call the following to disable compression. mt -f /dev/st0 nocompression The other method would be the disable a DIP switch or jumper on the tape drive. I include the above line in my startup scripts. It would appear it only needs to be set at boot. Russell On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:27:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am using an Exabyte Eliant 820 tape drive on Linux kernel 2.4.18 and > would like to make sure the hardware compression is disabled. Does anyone > know how I can check that ? > > Thanks > Regards