I believe FreeBSD (my os) uses a command called "mt"...anyway...here is 
the output from "mt status":

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports]# mt status
Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
Current:  0x42                 variable       0        0x1
---------available modes---------
0:        0x42                 variable       0        0x1
1:        0x42                 variable       0        0x1
2:        0x42                 variable       0        0x1
3:        0x42                 variable       0        0x1
---------------------------------
Current Driver State: at rest.
---------------------------------
File Number: 0  Record Number: 0        Residual Count 0



Looks like compression is set to 0x1...not sure what that means though

Do you know what it means?

jason


Brian Debelius wrote:
> I believe you can use tapeinfo to see if compression is turned on.
>
> Jason King wrote:
>> How do I make sure bacula is using hardware compression when backing 
>> up to my Ultrium tape drive?
>>
>> Jason
>>
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