Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Niall O Broin
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 20:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > >mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 0 > > > >has worked as wanted (tapeinfo is showing the change). > > A "Side comment" here in case the mt folks are watching. I would be > VERY nice if mt had the same syntax across all the platforms it > runs

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 02:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:00:26AM -0600, Russell Adams wrote: >> My bad, I was having an OpenVMS moment. :P >> >> Its really... >> >> mt -f /dev/st0 compression off > >I don't have this either; I only have (from the manpage) a >da

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread rb
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:00:26AM -0600, Russell Adams wrote: > My bad, I was having an OpenVMS moment. :P > > Its really... > > mt -f /dev/st0 compression off I don't have this either; I only have (from the manpage) a datcompression that take 1(show) , 0 (disables) or nothing (enables) as

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Adams
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Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread marc . bigler
r help Regards Russell Adams To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disabled hw compression

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:23:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:51:16PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 11:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > > > > I am using an Exabyte Eliant 820 tape drive on Linux kernel 2.4.18 and > > > would like to

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Adams
Under Linux you can call the following to disable compression. mt -f /dev/st0 nocompression The other method would be the disable a DIP switch or jumper on the tape drive. I include the above line in my startup scripts. It would appear it only needs to be set at boot. Russell On Mon, Feb

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 05:44 am, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >>On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 11:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >> >>>I am using an Exabyte Eliant 820 tape drive on Linux kernel >>> 2.4.18 and would like to make sure the hardware compression is >>> disabled. Does any

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 11:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I am using an Exabyte Eliant 820 tape drive on Linux kernel 2.4.18 and would like to make sure the hardware compression is disabled. Does anyone know how I can check that ? For that drive, compression is

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread rb
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:51:16PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 11:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > > I am using an Exabyte Eliant 820 tape drive on Linux kernel 2.4.18 and > > would like to make sure the hardware compression is disabled. Does anyone > > know how I c

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 11:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I am using an Exabyte Eliant 820 tape drive on Linux kernel 2.4.18 and > would like to make sure the hardware compression is disabled. Does anyone > know how I can check that ? For that drive, compression is controlled via density. 0x15 i

Disabled hw compression

2003-02-17 Thread marc . bigler
Hello, I am using an Exabyte Eliant 820 tape drive on Linux kernel 2.4.18 and would like to make sure the hardware compression is disabled. Does anyone know how I can check that ? Thanks Regards