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From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
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Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes
To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 09:27:47 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199601150008.QAA19285@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Jan 14, 96 04:08:30 pm
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Julian Elischer writes:
>
>>
>> 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?

How can it?  It's the hardware that doesn't grok.  Or am I missing the
point?

Greg