Just for your information, on my Linux mtx's version (Slackware 8.1 with a 2.4.18 kernel) there is no such option "nocompression" to mtx... But there are the options defcompression and compression which can be set to 0 then it looks like that compression is disabled...
PS: thanks Joshua for your help
Regards
Russell Adams To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<RLAdams@kelsey-sey cc:
bold.com> Subject: Re: Disabled hw compression
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02/18/03 04:54 PM
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 17, 2003 at 11:27:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
