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: > > 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 > Sent by: > > owner-amanda-users@ > > amanda.org > > > > > > 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 > >