On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 at 2:13pm, Eric Sproul wrote > I've read posts that indicate a compressed tape will silently set drive > compression back on, but will that change still be visible to mt?
This all depends on the type of drive. > BTW, the drive has no DIP switches for setting compression-- it is > completely controlled by software. Also, my system is Linux, so there > are no compression-related device names. I am relying strictly on mt > to manipulate the drive outside of AMANDA, so it's important that I be > able to trust its output. The 'tapeinfo' tool bundled with mtx will actually give you more info than mt. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
