From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Mar 25 14:55:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA13451 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:55:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA13442 Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:55:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA05797; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:55:07 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199603252255.OAA05797@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: turning on/off DAT compression To: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:55:06 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, gibbs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Robert Schien at "Mar 25, 96 06:58:51 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Has anyone a script or short program to turn on/off the compression > mode of a DAT drive? It seems that the 'mt' command doesn't support > such a command yet. If this is done via a mode select then see ``man scsi'', look at /usr/share/misc/scsi_modes, and get a SCSI command manual for your drive. I have the stuff to turn parity on and off on the Archive/Python DAT drives, and can easily add any other model selects for this device. (Justin, did you ever test my parity scsi mode select???) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD