it's an exabite 1805
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Eric Lee Green wrote:
> 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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