Hi!

Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:

> I have installed and configured ftape. The newest version. Ftape-tools
> work fine as well. Ftmt erases, rewinds, winds and so on. The problem is I
> can't do an errorless backup. I use tar, afio or dd and everytime I get a
> write error at random block. Looks like media failure. I have changed a
> tape but the errors still occurs. The worst is... it works ok under Win95
> :(

I assume you cleaned the head (as per the instructions of the
hardware) and retensioned the tape often.  Hmm.  What sort of
errors did the logfile show?

-Wolfgang

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