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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 1996 16:18:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, gibbs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: turning on/off DAT compression
Message-ID:  <199603260018.QAA13216@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199603252255.OAA05797@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 25, 96 02:55:06 pm

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there is a compression enable/disable ioctl in teh driver, with
the appropriate commands in mt(1)
it has never been tested..



> 
> > 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
> 




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