Hello. I have tape drive Quantum DLT VS160 (part of dmesg bellow) connected to Adaptec AHA-2940. Everything work fine, but i dont know how to enable hardware compresion on that drive. There aren't any jumpers on enclosure, and mt(1) or st(4) dont say anytging about that.
---- ahc1 at pci3 dev 2 function 0 "Adaptec AHA-2940U" rev 0x00: irq 11 scsibus2 at ahc1: 16 targets ahc1: target 5 using 8bit transfers ahc1: target 5 using asynchronous transfers st0 at scsibus2 targ 5 lun 0: <QUANTUM, DLT VS160, 2500> SCSI2 1/sequential removable st0: density code 0x50, variable blocks, write-enabled ---- machine# mt stat SCSI tape drive, residual=0 ds=3<Mounted> er=0 blocksize: 0 (0, 0, 0, 0) density: 80 (0, 0, 0, 0) Regards, Darek