List, Question: how does one implement hardware compression on a Quantum M1500 SDLT 320 tape device on RH 9.0? I'm using a SDLT 320 (Quantum M1500) on RH 9.0 system for Legato Networker. The system works fine at normal 'density' of 160GB by using the /dev/nst0 and /dev/nst1 devices, but I'm at a lost on how to implement compression on the tape devices to enable 320GB capacity. I see the following no rewind devices: crw-rw---- root disk 9, 128 /dev/nst0 crw-rw---- root disk 9, 224 /dev/nst0a crw-rw---- root disk 9, 160 /dev/nst0l crw-rw---- root disk 9, 192 /dev/nst0m Hoping to determine what the difference is between 'a','l',and 'm' thinking one will enable compression, I do a 'mt -f /dev/nst0a' it returns: /dev/nst0a: No such device or address and the same for nst0l and nst0m. though I get a return for 'mt -f /dev/nst0': SCSI 2 tape drive file number=-1,block number=-1, partition=0 Tape block size 0 bytes, Density Code 0x0 (default), Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (50000): DR_OPEN IM_REP_EN I also get the same result for the rewind device (/dev/st0). So how does one implement hardware compression on the Quantum SDLT on RH 9.0? Thanks. Steve Binyon System Administrator TACCSF (505)853-0368 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
