AFAIK, there should be two different devices for your tape drive, one for
compressed writes and another for uncompressed rights. I'd point you at a
HowTo or something, but linuxdoc.org changed their site layout (*again*)
and I can't find a search box. (Wish they wouldn't do that)
Anyways, I would use software compression over hardware compression if you
have a halfway decent system. Something like gzip will provide much
better throughput/compression than any of the hardware compression I've
seen out there.
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Brian Anderson wrote:
>
> Hardware compression... How can I tell if it's enabled / disabled /
> working correctly.
>
> I got a tape drive from a friend. It is listed as being a 12/24 gig DAT. I
> am currently only getting 12 gig of data on it. Currently I'm backing up
> with a simple tar script...
>
> I know very little about tape drives (any good FAQ would be welcome). I'm
> assuming that the data type is still relevant, even with hardware
> compression? (an mpeg file won't compress as much as a text file...)
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