Dear Listers, I really hope that I'm not OT.
While successfully using amanda on several machines I have a single server/tape drive, which refuses to switch of hardware compression. I read the threads several weeks ago in this list concerning compression but all my experiments failed (see below). Even some emails with Tandberg didn't show a solution (the support was really nice but no progress). I am using SuSE 9.1 with amanda-2.4.4p2-49. minerva:~ # dmesg | grep scsi scsi0 : Tekram DC395(U/UW/F), DC315(U) - ASIC TRM-S1040 v2.05, 2004/03/08 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0, type 1 This "Can't write mode page." below drives me crazy. minerva:~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 erase minerva:~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind minerva:~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression Compression on. minerva:~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind minerva:~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0 Can't write mode page. minerva:~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression off Can't write mode page. minerva:~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 1 Compression on. minerva:~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 status drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape drive status = 838861312 sense key error = 0 residue count = 0 file number = 0 block number = 0 Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x32 (unknown). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN Is there anybody out there who encountered and solved this issue? Thank you very much and best regards Uwe ____________ Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit Version: AVK 16.5212 from 31.01.2006
