I wrote:
> I have just got a PV-132T with an LTO-2 drive.
Running amtapetype on it gives me the following:
define tapetype lto2 {
comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)"
length 199690 mbytes
filemark 10922 kbytes
speed 30058 kps
}
I'll add it to the FA
how do i check to see if compression is off or on..
and will i need to put this in rc.local when server is needed to be
rebooted?
Alexander Jolk wrote:
which device to i turn compression off on?
You turn the compression off on your tape drive, probably /dev/nst0.
The change
(I believe we are still talking Linux? Other systems have other
traditions, it seems.)
> how do i check to see if compression is off or on..
To check: mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression
To disable: mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0
> and will i need to put this in rc.local when server is needed to
chris weisiger wrote:
I have another question, i think i need to turn compression of...
so my question is,
which device to i turn compression off on?
That's OS dependant.
For solaris, you need to specify the correct device /dev/rmt/0l,
assuming you have configured /kernel/drv/st.conf correctly for
