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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!nntp.coast.net!torn!ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca!news From: Matthew Stein <mstein@uoguelph.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Support for HW compression DATs?? Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 12:40:10 -0500 Organization: University of Guelph Lines: 10 Message-ID: <30F3F9FA.2CEB@uoguelph.ca> References: <4d0lv6$kce@unix2.sysnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp04-34.net.uoguelph.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (Win95; I) Matthew Patton wrote: > I have an Archive 2gig DAT that does hardware compression. According to my > kernal it's a 'generic' 3.81mm device. Needless to say, it doesn't enable the > hardware compression mode. I have a similar Archive 2/4gig DAT that does hardware compression. If yours is the same as mine, you'll find compression controlled on the back of the unit. I don't run it on my FreeBSD machine, so I'm not sure how it's used there, but I know that all other OS' I've used it with didn't give a damn about the hardware compression, it just "went".