HP T4 (t4000) 4/8gb Tape Drive not using full capacity

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12-06-2005, 09:05 PM	#1
k41184 Member Registered: Nov 2003 Location: Sioux Center, IA Distribution: RH9, Fedora Core I,II,III Posts: 37 Rep:	HP T4 (t4000) 4/8gb Tape Drive not using full capacity I am running FC4, fully updates (with nightly YUM). I have Kernel 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 . I am using a HP T4000 SCSI tape drive for backup purposes. It holds 4GB uncompressed and is supposed to do 8GB Compresses (Yes, I know this is small, but it suits my needs jut fine). I backup with the tar command (tar cvf /dev/st0 /home/mydir). The problem: This tape drive is supposed to do 8GB compressed. (Back in the miry day of Windows, I seem to remember the HP Colorado Backup GUI had some option I had to select to make it compress? Its been a while....) How do I tell this tape drive to "do compression" so I can get a full 8gb onto the tape? Thank you for your help.

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