From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 14 16:09:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA02623 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 16:09:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA02612 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 16:09:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA19285; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 16:08:31 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199601150008.QAA19285@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 16:08:30 -0800 (PST) Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601131805.TAA00481@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Jan 13, 96 07:05:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > > But if I use: > > > > > > mt -f /dev/nrst0 reten > > > > > > I get: > > > > > > % mt reten > > > mt: /dev/nrst0: retens: Invalid argument > > > > Try 'retension'. It was changed from 'retens' since the former is more > > apparently more standard. > > 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? > > Wilko > _ __________________________________________________________________________ > | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl > |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >