From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Apr 9 11:46:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20824 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 11:46:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tharg.eu.org (ipallfreeman.cwcmultimedia.co.uk [195.44.34.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20816 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 11:46:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ip@tharg.eu.org) Received: (from ip@localhost) by tharg.eu.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id TAA27371; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 19:45:34 +0100 (BST) From: Ian Pallfreeman Message-Id: <199804091845.TAA27371@tharg.eu.org> Subject: Re: compression on Exabyte 8700LT? In-Reply-To: <199804091626.KAA07550@panzer.plutotech.com> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "Apr 9, 98 10:26:53 am" To: ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth D. Merry) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 19:45:34 +0100 (BST) Cc: ip@mcc.ac.uk, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: ip@mcc.ac.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ken Merry wrote: > Ian Pallfreeman wrote... > > [...] > > How do I permanently enable compression? > > [...] > Well, this may be fixed by PR kern/5274. > [...] > So, you might want to try applying the patch in that PR, and see if > it fixes your problem. Sorry -- I didn't mention that I'd already found that and applied it, before squeaking to the mailing lists. > Most drives I've seen come with compression turned > on by default, but maybe yours doesn't. No, the cursed thing doesn't. I'd assumed it would. The "estimated N tape blocks" numbers from the dump logs add up, though -- it's only writing 5GB. > The next CAM snapshot fixes this. Thanks! Can't spare the hardware to try it right now, but the new repository and ftp mirror is in the orderbook... Cheers, Ian. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message