Re: ioctl for HW compression on Sony DDS?

Louis J. LaBash (labash@lou1.ll.siue.edu)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:03:57 -0500


On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 11:36:42AM -0400, nbecker@fred.net wrote:
> Is there any way to turn on/off hardware compression on my Sony S10000
> DDS4 tape drive (maybe via ioctl?)

Are you using Kai's "mt-st", not GNU's "mt"; although both are called mt.
mt -v
mt-st v. 0.5b
If you are
mt compress 1
should turn it On, 0 = Off

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Louis-ljl-{labash@lou1.ll.siue.edu}

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