Hi, I am using amanda with DDS tapes without h/w compression and during boot the compression is disabled using mt. I noticed however a different behaviour between the mt in the cpio 2.6 package (in opensuse 10.2) and the version 2.9 which is in opensuse 11.1.
The command is "mt -f [dev] datcompression [count]" The mt man page says: - if count is 0 -> compression off - if count == 1 -> status is printed - if anything else, or blank -> compression on However in 2.6: - if count == 0 -> off - if count == 1 or blank -> status is printed - anyhing else -> on And in 2.9: - if count == 0 -> off - if anything else (including 1 or blank) -> on and there is no count value which gives the "status printed" This is of course not an amanda issue, but I thought it worthwhile to let you know, in case you were also using "1" as the inquiry count, but it actually enabled the compression again. Regards, Charles
