From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Jan 29 09:43:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16819 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:43:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA16809 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:42:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id SAA19645 ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 18:42:43 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id SAA17499 ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 18:42:42 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id IAA01157; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 08:48:32 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199601290748.IAA01157@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: mt To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 08:48:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601290059.BAA05505@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at "Jan 29, 96 01:59:04 am" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1586 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL3 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that J Wunsch said: > This basically means your drive doesn't support it. My HP DAT at work Mine is a SureTape 5000, a DDS-DC. I have the following dmesg output (bt0:5:0): "HP HP35480A 1009" type 1 removable SCSI 2 st0(bt0:5:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13, drive empty I think there is a jumper to enable/disable compression but: - it is not written in the doc :-( - I'd rather have a software switch. > lets me edit the field, but any attempt to save the mode page (even > unmodified) results in a parameter list length error. :-( I'm stomped > without a SCSI reference manual for the drive, but yet failed to find > one. The HP documentation is lacking on several points :-( -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Jan 14 20:23:45 MET 1996