/dev/st0?

[der.hans]

Am 31. Aug, 2000 schwäzte Robert Ambrose so:

> 
> COuld you shed a little more light on exactly what you're looking at?

I thought the different devices controlled what level of hardware
compression was being involved.

/dev/st0 would be none or default
/dev/st0l would be level 1
/dev/st0m would be level 2
/dev/st0a would be level 3

Or something like that. Driver has to support it and all that. Looks like
I was wrong. It seems to me that the different devices was one way of
controlling hardware compression under AIX, but I could be wrong.

I need to be able to find out what settings my tape drive has and then be
able to change them :). I know how to do that in AIX, but that doesn't
help me here.

Turns out that there is a closed source util from the drive
manufacturer. It isn't working right for me and I'd prefer to have a
generic solution regarding tape drives in general.

danke,

der.hans
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