On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 13:16 -0800, Krautkramer, John wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to enable hardware compression on a HP C6364A/C1537A > SCSI tape drive. Searching google and this list, I've found questions > but not any answers. I've found 'mt compression on' or 'mt > defcompression' is supposed to do this but I don't see it working. > > I'm using a DDS1 tape capable of 2G uncompressed, 4G compressed for > testing. I try turning it off with 'mt compression off' and it runs out > of tape as expected. I try the above commands and I still run out of > tape. The data I'm using as an experiment is 2.28G in total. > > Any ideas? Is there a simple way to verify the compression is turned on? > The response to 'mt status' is always the same: > > [root@hbwpe2 prod]# mt status > SCSI 2 tape drive: > File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. > Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)). > Soft error count since last status=0 > General status bits on (41010000): > BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN > > Thanks in advance for any ideas! > You may wish to investigate /etc/stinit.def (or create it if not there) man stinit (or /usr/share/doc/mt-st-0.8 on RHEL 4) for more info -- Karl Latiss <karl.latiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Atvert Systems -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
