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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hplntx!hplb!hpcpb!jocko.bri.hp.com!aslater From: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com () Subject: Re: HP C1533A DAT tape ? Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User) Message-ID: <E0166r.JJr@bri.hp.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:25:39 GMT Reply-To: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com References: <stanbDzLuJv.CEo@netcom.com> <Dzrx1z.9xv@bri.hp.com> <54rce7$9ta@uriah.heep.sax.de> Nntp-Posting-Host: jocko.bri.hp.com Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 22 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com () wrote: : > : If I can, what device should I use ? Will this device enable : > : the compresion on the tape drive ? : > 1. hack st.c and put in relevant quirks / code to get yourself DC control : > by device file used (code for this isn't hugely difficult) : Ah, it's even simpler. :) : Try the `mt comp 1' command. I've just checked, it's around there at : least since FreeBSD 2.0.5. The man page still lies that it were not : implemented though... but i cannot remember a single feedback whether : it's actually working now. It has been implemented blindly after the : SCSI-2 specs by Julian Elischer. Hmm. If it does it by dinging the DC page then the answer is probably. Conner DATs at the very least do it the same way.. al. (not speaking for HP..)