From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 15:20:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA18538 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:20:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl (root@linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA18489 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:20:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from uni4nn.iaf.nl (root@uni4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.33]) by linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA14023; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:20:25 +0100 Received: by uni4nn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA04835 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:19:54 +0100 Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA16420 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:04:56 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA00678; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:31:12 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199601152131.WAA00678@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:31:11 +0100 (MET) Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601150008.QAA19285@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Jan 14, 96 04:08:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------