Sorry, I meant the IBMLZ1 compression.  IDRC is for 3490's.

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:00:45 -0500, Brian Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 
wrote:

>IDRC compression is on by default, but can be turned off via software 

>parameters.
>
>Some data is not well suited to compression, which may be the case with 

>your user's Linux data.  If the data being dumped is already in a 
>compressed format the hardware compression is unlikely to compress it an
y 
>further and may actually make it larger.  This is a well known side 
effect 
>of many compression schemes.
>
>Brian Nielsen

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