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On 4 Mar 1997 19:14:03 GMT, in comp.os.netware.misc, jhmeyers@miu.edu
(John H Meyers) wrote:

>  o HP35470A tape drive with hardware compression feature installed
>
>Can SBACKUP be persuaded to use the hardware compression feature
>already installed into the tape drive?  It does not do so now;
>tape (4mm x 90m) capacity remains 2GB, as it is w/o compression.

We use an HP DDS-2 tape drive, which has jumpers on it to control
compression.  We use the mode that enables compression by default but
allows software to disable it (which SBACKUP doesn't and, as far as I
know, can't), and this is set by jumpers on the drive itself (not
necessarily on the external enclosure, and opening the latter to get
at the former might void the warranty if you've bought the whole thing
as a unit).  We definitely pack more than 4G on a 120M tape, usually
over 7G.