On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 07:45:52AM -0700, Eric Fox wrote:
> 
> I've got an IBM 8505 tape drive attached to my Sparc:
> 
>   st0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <EXABYTE, IBM-8505, 7J0A> 
>     SCSI2 1/sequential removable
>   st0: density code 0x8c, 1024-byte blocks, write-enabled
> 
> Stupid Q:  How can I 'turn on' compression?

'mt compress 1' should do it.

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