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Reading and writing DAT under Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gilson Soares)
Tue Nov 26 08:34:20 1996

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:31:42 -0200 (BRD)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: Gilson Soares <gilson@cxpostal.com.br>
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>IMHO, HP SCSI 4mm dat tape drives work great.  Of the several I have, I=
 like
>the 2-4 GB (hardware compression) because the compression really improves=
 the
>read/write rate.
>
>Jeff Hutchison        <jhut@inst.strykercorp.com>
>Stryker Instruments
>Kalamazoo, MI

Well, talking about DAT:

1-How can I use compression while writing to DAT on Linux ?

2-How can I read a DAT written on HP-UX that has  compression ? (tape
written using /dev/rmt/0m, w/o compression, read fine; tape written using
/dev/rmt/0hc, with compression, fails to read)

Thanks in advance

Gilson Soares <gilsonss@br.homeshopping.com.br>
Team Systems Sistemas de Informacao Ltda
Av Eng Luis Carlos Berrini 1140 / 7=BA andar - Brooklin Novo
04571-000 - S=E3o Paulo, SP - BRASIL
Tel: +55 11 5505-3000
Fax: +55 11 5505-0008


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