Description of problem:

I recently added a Quantum DLT7000 drive to my system. I wanted to turn on
hardware compression. It was quite painful to track down the appropriate entries
for /etc/stinit.def.

Red Hat Linux should ship with a populated file for all the commonly used tape
drives. Even if you don't install it to /etc, at least stick in
/usr/share/doc/mt-st/.

For Quantum DLT drives, the following file should be used:

http://us.geocities.com/rohbeck/stinit.def.txt