[GLLUG] Dat tape drives

Benjamin Minshall minshal1@msu.edu
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:43:02 -0500


My DDS drive requires a jumper to be set for hardware compression.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Mark Szidik/mlc
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:58 AM
> To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: [GLLUG] Dat tape drives
> 
> 
> Anybody know how to tell a DAT tape drive to turn on its hardware
> compression?
> 
> I have tried to use  # mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 1
> 
> But it appears to have no effect.
> 
> Linux 2.4.x kernel, Redhat 7.2, mt version 0.6
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> ~~~
> Mark Szidik, CTO
> Michigan Library Consortium
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