My bad, I was having an OpenVMS moment. :P Its really...
mt -f /dev/st0 compression off
Russell
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:52:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> 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...
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> PS: thanks Joshua for your help
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> Regards
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> Russell Adams To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> bold.com> Subject: Re: Disabled hw
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> Under Linux you can call the following to disable compression.
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> mt -f /dev/st0 nocompression
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> The other method would be the disable a DIP switch or jumper on the
> tape drive.
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> I include the above line in my startup scripts. It would appear it
> only needs to be set at boot.
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> Russell
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> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:27:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello,
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> > 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 ?
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> > Thanks
> > Regards
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