At 17:17 31/07/00 -0500, you wrote:
>                                         Why won't taper and kbackup don't 
> work, kbackup says that /dev/nqft3,
>the device that initializes my tape, is rewinding and it wants a
>nonrewinding device. Using the plain tar command it acts as if it's
>nonrewinding. How do I fix this?
>The taper program, when choosing make tape from the utilities menu says
>invalid argument after attempting to erase a tape, nothing happens.

I had exactly the same problem with KBackup - I gave up with it.
Taper though worked fine, just couldn't handle the number of files I have 
on my system without crashing :-(

Paul



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