Terzo wrote:
> I've got an exabit tape drive and i'm trying to read several tapes that
> people are sending me and i can't read them. when i take it over to the
> sun box that has a similar exabit i can read it using the
> /dev/<something>/<something>"h" and i know the h is hardware compression
> on sun. well i don't have /dev/st0h on the linux box. how do i enable
> hardware compression. is it possible?
You fail to mention what model Exabyte drives are involved here.
In general, almost all tape drives with hardware compression will
automatically adjust to read compressed tapes that they themselves (or an
identical-model drive) wrote. In addition, newer drives will generally read
older tapes using 'backward compatibility' modes. The reverse is not true --
older drives will generally not read tapes created with newer drives, due to
differences in compression standards and tape format used to increase tape
capacity over time.
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