> > So, ok, all of a sudden compression is on. I think it must have been > enabled when I was messing with btape trying to test the "bad" tape. > If this is the case though, then I wonder why compression wasn't > enabled the first time I ran btape on these exact same tapes/drive > (note: on the last run of btape I terminated (killall) the btape > console after it froze on me, which may explain that). > Did you know if compression is off at the drive and then data is written to the tape and then compression is turned back on the drive the tape will still not compress data unless it is wiped?
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