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

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