Re: How to activate the datacompression at SCSI-DAT-Streamer HP C1533A ??

[Anton Emmerfors <anton@vegasys.com>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:55:34PM +0200, Walther, Christoph wrote:

> It makes no sense, if the datacompression is activated by the
> DIL-switches 1 and 2 at the streamer or to do that by
> mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 1.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm not certain whether this is relevant to your problem or not but my
Python 27871-XXX (Compaq OEM) and mt from Testing (and Potato when I
used that) needs "datcompression 2" to turn compression ON and
"datcompression 0" to turn it OFF. "datcompression 1" simply reports
the status of compression without changing it.

Hope this helps.

        /Anton
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