It's super annoying, and it's annoying to (attempt) to disable the hardware compression on the tape drives as well. We've got a tape library with 2 two LTO7 tap

It's super annoying, and it's annoying to (attempt) to disable the hardware compression on the tape drives as well. We've got a tape library with 2 two LTO7 tape drives, and even though we're accessing it through the linux device file that should be accessing the tapes in an un-compressed mode diagnostic tools indicate that compression is still be used when writing to tape. Since we're pre-compressing our data with gzip having the tape drive try and apply compression is a wasted effort and I wonder if we're losing write speed to it.