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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!snert!hwr 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 Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn Lines: 16 Message-ID: <slrn4f84m0.8g.hwr@snert.pilhuhn.de> References: <4d0lv6$kce@unix2.sysnet.net> <30F3F9FA.2CEB@uoguelph.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: snert.pilhuhn.de X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.2.1) 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 INN FAQ can be found in ftp://ftp.xlink.net/pub/news/docs/