Re: Exabyte Mammoth-2

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

TomBell1 ages com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How do I enable compression for this tape drive? I have a Exabyte 
> Mammoth-2 tape drive using Exabyte 225m AME tapes.  I have looked around 
> the Internet searching for information on how to do this, but I can only 
> find information saying that it's compatible and it works with Linux.
[snip]
> Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x28 (unknown to this mt).

Instead of using /dev/st0, try /dev/st0m.  You might also try something
to the effect of "mt -f /dev/st0 setdensity 0x29".
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