Sven, if you don't mind my asking...how did you setup stinit? I installed it but it seems a bit confusing as to what I need to do to have it disable compression on reboots, etc.
Thanks, Gordon > -----Original Message----- > From: Sven Rudolph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:02 AM > To: Graeme Humphries > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'amanda users list' > Subject: Re: Disabling LTO-2 hardware compression > > Graeme Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Gordon J. Mills III wrote: > >> Just a note on this: > >> There needs to be a tape in the drive when you execute that > >> command...at least on my drives. > >> Anyone have any further info on this? > >> > > We've seen the same thing, the command fails if there's > tapes in the > > changer but not in the drive on our Exabyte LTO-3 unit. Also, we've > > noticed that if the tape unit is reset (power failure, > whatever) then > > it resets back to compression *on*. > > Use stinit from mt-st, it resets these parameters whenever an > open(2) on the device is done. > > Sven > >
