From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 14:47:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05298 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:47:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05287 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:47:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA24089; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:17:34 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA05939; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:17:34 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981030091733.C5846@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:17:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Richard Secor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Drive Compression References: <017601be02e2$9ef9fb80$0200000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <017601be02e2$9ef9fb80$0200000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com>; from Richard Secor on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:19:56PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 21:19:56 -0500, Richard Secor wrote: > I have a 4mm tape drive I'm trying to get compression to work on under > FreeBSD. > > 1) What versions of FreeBSD support compression on DDS tapes? All of them > 2) Is there anything special I have to do (i.e., mt -f density or > somthing) ? Possibly. Check your tape drive documentation. In general, it's easier to set it for compression by default rather than mess with the somewhat confusing mt options. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message