On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 at 10:35am, Bradley Glonka wrote > > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 at 10:22am, Bradley Glonka wrote
> > What happens if you leave that line out and let it try to > > print to the > > default printer? > Yup I tried that, same thing!!! And what's the output of 'lpq'? 'lpq -Pep4510'? > > Wow! Where can I get tapes that hold 1.2TB? > You ask the tape drive fairy :) > > (boy do I feel silly) > Hmmmm I guess I should have looked closer at the > Output of tapetype. Heh. > > Never run tapetype with hardware compression on. > I read that I should turn it off, but Dell has no answer > For me on how to do so. The guys I talked to thought I > Was crazy and they had never heard of such a request. > This tape drive is supposed to have some "intelliget" > Sensors to determine if it should turn compression on or > Off. Yeah, I've heard that about LTO. But it's obviously doing *something* to confuse tapetype. Try 'mt -f $TAPE compression 0'. You can check the status of compression using the program 'tapeinfo', part of mtx. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
