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Re: DDS & Enabling Compression
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Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:57:16 +0000
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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Overman_James wrote:

> Our experience has been that a power glitch to the tape drive (external
> units) will cause the reset to uncompressed.  It is a good idea to
> Always do a DEVCTRL to set the device to the desired configuration before
> writing to the DDS.  (an ounce of prevention....).

Doesn't this depend on a hardware switch or jumper on the drive?  In other
words one site's power glitch could force it to compressed whereas another
site's power glitch would force it to uncompress?

CTA1 Tracy Johnson, USNR
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