If my fuzzy memory serves me correctly, there's a jumper on the drive  
internally that controls it, on by default. "mt status" or "mt  
compress 1" should tell or set it for you respectively.

On Aug 25, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:

> ok!!
> I'll try that straight-away....
> You wouldn't happen to know how to enable compression on a TLZ10 ??  
> or is that on by default ?
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> Den 25/08/2006 kl. 16.02 skrev Chris Tribo:
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>> On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
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>>> 181.79 tapes for backup... that is perhaps a wee bit too much! ;-)
>>>
>>> Any ideas ?
>>>
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>> Yeah, I remember this from when I had some DECstations running  
>> NetBSD/pmax. Your best bet is to tell it to write until it hits  
>> EOT, which is just adding -a, as you never know what the actual  
>> needed tape length is with compression on. man dump.
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