Looks like tapeinfo can be built for BSD. http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html#SECTION004037000000000000000
mt -f /dev/nsa0 comp enable Does that do it? or http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html#SECTION004036000000000000000 _If you have built the *mtx* program in the *depkgs* package, you can use tapeinfo_ to get quite a bit of information about your tape drive even if it is not an autochanger. This program is called using the SCSI control device. On Linux for tape drive /dev/nst0, this is usually /dev/sg0, while on FreeBSD for /dev/nsa0, the control device is often /dev/pass2. For example on my DDS-4 drive (/dev/nst0), I get the following: tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'HP ' Product ID: 'C5713A ' Revision: 'H107' Attached Changer: No MinBlock:1 MaxBlock:16777215 SCSI ID: 5 SCSI LUN: 0 Ready: yes BufferedMode: yes Medium Type: Not Loaded Density Code: 0x26 BlockSize: 0 Jason King wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
