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From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Support for HW compression DATs??
Date: 10 Jan 1996 19:25:52 GMT
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In article <30F3F9FA.2CEB@uoguelph.ca>, Matthew Stein wrote:
>Matthew Patton wrote:
>> I have an Archive 2gig DAT that does hardware compression.  According to my

ME 2 :)

>same as mine, you'll find compression controlled on the back of the unit.  I don't 

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

-- 
Heiko W.Rupp hwr@pilhhuhn.de
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