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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Rempel, Horst
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:59 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: AW: 3590 (B1A) Hardware Compression
Hello Michael,
you must install the mtst command in your Linux.
After
We use 3590 B1A drives, with 10/30 carts providing native capacity of
10GB, with up to 30GB using hardware compression. I am under the
impression that the hardware will choose the best compression possible
UNLESS it is specifically told otherwise (i.e. via a TAPE COMP/NOCOMP
and DDR
System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von
Michael Coffin
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. September 2007 15:14
An: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Betreff: 3590 (B1A) Hardware Compression
We use 3590 B1A drives, with 10/30 carts providing native capacity of 10GB,
with up to 30GB using hardware compression
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:14:17 -0400, Michael Coffin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We use 3590 B1A drives, with 10/30 carts providing native capacity of
10GB, with up to 30GB using hardware compression. I am under the
impression that the hardware will choose the best compression possible
UNLESS it is
Sorry, I meant the IBMLZ1 compression. IDRC is for 3490's.
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:00:45 -0500, Brian Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
IDRC compression is on by default, but can be turned off via software
parameters.
Some data is not well suited to compression, which may be the case with
