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G'day,
I suspect that this old HP35480 tape drive is not backing up to
capacity. Possibly becuase hardware compression is turned on, and the
backup software i am using uses software compression (AMANDA)
I have looked over the mt(1) man page and tried the compression
commands which exited silently and nothing in the logs suggested that
compression has changed.
I have just found this excellent posting circa '94 which seems to
explain why the mt commands don't appear to work...
http://groups.google.com.au/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=CL027o.7wo%40bri.hp.com
So my question is "How do i send a mode select command under linux?"
I realise that i could set/check the switches on the device, however,
i'd much rather be able to do this remotely and without interrupting
client workflow.
Thanks in advance,
ram.
G'day,
I suspect that this old HP35480 tape drive is not backing up to
capacity. Possibly becuase hardware compression is turned on, and the
backup software i am using uses software compression (AMANDA)
I have looked over the mt(1) man page and tried the compression
commands which exited silently and nothing in the logs suggested that
compression has changed.
I have just found this excellent posting circa '94 which seems to
explain why the mt commands don't appear to work...
http://groups.google.com.au/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=CL027o.7wo%40bri.hp.com
So my question is "How do i send a mode select command under linux?"
I realise that i could set/check the switches on the device, however,
i'd much rather be able to do this remotely and without interrupting
client workflow.
Thanks in advance,
ram.