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 can check that ? > > For that drive, compression is controlled via density. 0x15 is > uncompressed. >
Isn't there a generic way of configuring it, like /dev/nst0 is the non-rewinding device, isn't there a non compressing device? (I have the same question actually about being sure a Dell tape is in non compressing config, but I don't have the complete model details at hand....) Raph -- Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting http://www.fosdem.org