Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:17:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Richard Secor <rsecor@seqlogic.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Drive Compression Message-ID: <19981030091733.C5846@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <017601be02e2$9ef9fb80$0200000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com>; from Richard Secor on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:19:56PM -0500 References: <017601be02e2$9ef9fb80$0200000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com>
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On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 21:19:56 -0500, Richard Secor wrote: > I have a 4mm tape drive I'm trying to get compression to work on under > FreeBSD. > > 1) What versions of FreeBSD support compression on DDS tapes? All of them > 2) Is there anything special I have to do (i.e., mt -f <device> density or > somthing) ? Possibly. Check your tape drive documentation. In general, it's easier to set it for compression by default rather than mess with the somewhat confusing mt options. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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