Re: [SLUG] DDS2 Tape drive and compression

[jon@xxxxxxxxx]

Quoting Barrie Hall <slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi,
> 
> I have an AIWA GD-8000 DDS2 tape drive connected up and working nicely. My
> problem is that I can't seem to work out whether it is using hardware
> compression or not. The jumper on the drive labelled "disabled compression"
> is not jumpered. I have issued an 'mt compression on', but I still can't seem
> to store more than about 3.9G on a DDS2 120m tape using 'tar cvf /dev/nst0
> /u1'.

Try this (works for my DDS3 and DDS2 drives);

mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 2

Jon