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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Support for HW compression DATs??
Date: 12 Jan 1996 23:04:21 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) writes:

> You can control that via a scsi command to the drive - I don't know what
> command, as I don't have service manuals ... But, imho it shouldn't be
> too hard to add these 5 lines of code to the kernel and/or mt

The provisions are already there, including a reserved MTFOO ioctl
command.  Nobody has really bothered to implement it yet.

(Submissions welcome. :-)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)