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HP C1537A Tape Drive - Hardware Compression

 
John Cobb_1
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HP C1537A Tape Drive - Hardware Compression

Hi i have a HP C1537A Tape Drive with the latest Firmware updates on it, i also have the HP diag tools installed aswell.

Is there anyway to tell if hardware compression is enabled? Or to enable to disable it?

Thanks

John Cobb
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Sunil Sharma_1
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Re: HP C1537A Tape Drive - Hardware Compression

Hi John,

Compression is controlled by DIP switches located bottom of Drive.
This link has good info about your query.


http://www.netsys.com/sunmgr/1997-04/msg00082.html

Sunil
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madoc
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Re: HP C1537A Tape Drive - Hardware Compression


Run the compression test within LTT ???

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/ltt/index.html

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John Cobb_1
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Re: HP C1537A Tape Drive - Hardware Compression

I ran the HP Library & Tape Tools Test Functions on Data Compression Test and the following message box popped up:

Data compression is currently DISABLED within the drive.

[OK]

Then when I press OK on the message box another pops up saying:

Do you want to ENABLE compression before proceeding?

[YES] [NO]

I press yes and the test starts to run then about 5 seconds later it comes up saying it has failed.

I look in the test results and i got the following:

[-]-Analysis Results
|
[-]-Compression Test
| |_Testing the C1537A
|
[-]-(STOP)-Mode Select command failed:
|_Byte2 0x5 SenseCode 0x26 SenseQual 0x0