From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 18:35:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10075 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10013 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:34:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23913; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:04:19 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA27304; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:04:18 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980327130417.10715@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:04:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Joe McGuckin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP 1554A supported ? References: <199803270206.SAA09962@monk.via.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803270206.SAA09962@monk.via.net>; from Joe McGuckin on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 06:06:09PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 March 1998 at 18:06:09 -0800, Joe McGuckin wrote: > > Does the st driver support selecting the various compression/density > options of this DAT drive (12G native, 24G compressed) Theoretically, yes. In practice, you need to know how the density code. This area needs more work. I'd suggest that you set up your drive for compression. It will still read uncompressed tapes, but why waste 12 GB when writing a tape? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message