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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!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HP C1533A DAT tape ? Date: 29 Oct 1996 20:56:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <555r1s$621@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <stanbDzLuJv.CEo@netcom.com> <Dzrx1z.9xv@bri.hp.com> <54rce7$9ta@uriah.heep.sax.de> <stanbDzw2rz.6yz@netcom.com> <32736962.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> wrote: > mt -f /dev/[r]st1 comp 1 > > Tried it, I get Invalid Argument (this is from the driver). The error message is in the syslog (/var/log/messages). Make sure to enable the software override for compression (i'm not sure whether it's DIP SW 1 or 2). I think it's disabled by default. -- 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. ;-)