Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:31:11 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes Message-ID: <199601152131.WAA00678@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199601150008.QAA19285@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Jan 14, 96 04:08:30 pm
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> > Sidestepping a bit: will 2.1R mt also set (no)compression on Exabytes > > capable of hardware compress? The &*^*( drive at work is a 8505 and > > my ol' home 8200 does not grok compressed tapes. > it SHOULD > but it's undocumanted because I haven't tested it yet.. > wanna test it? 8200 does not understand compressed tapes, that's a hardware limitation yes? I added the little density/compress patch to scsi_tape et al and now mt allows me to write 8200-tapes on a 8505 drive. Works just fine. Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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