On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 19:01, Kirk Strauser wrote:
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> At 2002-04-02T01:46:18Z, Doug Silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > So for the non-rewinding tape device I put in /dev/nsa0, which seems to
> > make sense after reading the mt and sa man pages (I know, I shouldn't be
> > RTFM'ing before ha
On FreeBSD, assuming your tape is /dev/sa0
$ mt comp off
will disable compression and
$ mt comp on
will enable compression.
$ mt status
will display the state of the tape drive at the moment. Read man mt for
details.
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 14:53, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> I'm trying to underst
I have no ideas, but I can confirm that I'm seeing the same behavior. I
can minimize it by increasing the timeout value to 7200, but I still see
about two dump failures a week from timeout (always the largest
dumps--but not even close to tape capacity). I can elimate as describe
by the original
