KBACKUPshould works with all tape drives supported by Linux. You need to have a properly configured tape driver in your kernel. If other programs work with your tape drive, KBACKUPwill as well. KBACKUPis able to autodetect your tape device and test it for compatibility.
KBACKUPhas been reported to work with tape drives on a QIC-02 controller, many different SCSIstreamers and DATdrives as well as with the ftapedriver version 2.03 (drives controlled by the floppy controller). It has reported not to work with zftapeyet. It has also been reported to work with the IOmega ZIPdrive[IMAGE ] , both the SCSI version as well as the alpha driver for the parallel-port version.
I am using and testing KBACKUPwith a (rather old) Tandberg drive on a no-name QIC-02controller. The QIC-02LINUXdriver implements the `` /dev/tape-reset'' device, so KBACKUPcan use it to reset the driver at your request. I have not heard of any other driver supplying this pseudo-device.
For more details on using floppy streamers (the ftapeand zftapedrivers), see the Ftape-HOWTO.