I had to rip my drive out to change some dip switches - have a look at the spec for the drive before you do anything as drastic as that.
HTH Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Tom Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 June 2003 16:57 To: Joshua Baker-LePain Cc: Jon LaBadie; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO1 tapetype > ISTR you saying this is Linux? If so, then 'mt compression 0' should do > it. You can check the status by pointing 'tapeinfo' (from the mtx > distribution) at the generic device associated with your tape drive. It is linux yes - will amanda use this command before writing to this device when amanda runs normally? How can one be sure that the hardware compression is permanently off? Tom
