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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:31:11 +0100 (MET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        nate@sri.MT.net, regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes
Message-ID:  <199601152131.WAA00678@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199601150008.QAA19285@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Jan 14, 96 04:08:30 pm

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> > 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?

8200 does not understand compressed tapes, that's a hardware
limitation yes?

I added the little density/compress patch to scsi_tape et al
and now mt allows me to write 8200-tapes on a 8505 drive.

Works just fine.

Wilko

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