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Joe Borgia
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LTO 6 compression enabled

We have an MSL 6480 tape library with LTO 6 drives. This feels instinctively like a dumb question, but can anybody tell me if Ultrium 6 drives come with hardware compression enabled by default? I can't seem to find anywhere either in the RMI or using LTT to enable/disable compression or even verify that it is being used.

Thanks, Joe

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Torsten.
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Re: LTO 6 compression enabled

You can see this in the drive details.

However, it depends on your data if it is compressable or not.

 

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Torsten.

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Joe Borgia
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Re: LTO 6 compression enabled

Strange. The front panel of our 6480 doesn't show information that detailed for our drives. Would there be any other way to get this information?

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Joe Borgia
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Re: LTO 6 compression enabled

I take that back. I just looked again and the information is there. Thank you very much.

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