From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat May 31 09:22:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27710 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 09:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA27701 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 09:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA23882 for freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 31 May 1997 18:21:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA21407; Sat, 31 May 1997 18:18:34 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970531181833.SW30703@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 18:18:33 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to turn off DAT compression References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Robert Schien on May 30, 1997 11:38:26 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Robert Schien wrote: > I have an Archive Python DAT drive (28388-XXX.494) and want to turn > off the compression mode. Not sure, i've never seen it really work, but did you ever try `mt comp'? The man page mentions it as being not implemented, but it's actually implemented. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)