Hi!

Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
>    When I take a backup using the command:

> tar cvf /dev/ftape <huge directory to be backed up>

> I get the following messages in /var/log/messages after sometime.
> Jun 15 21:05:11 nimbus kernel: [026] 0           ftape-io.c (ftape_report_error) - 
>errorcode: 4.

> Can you please help?

You may want to tune up the debugging level of ftape, so the
output will be more descriptive (and can pinpoint the error).
Does the backup finish?  Does the backup stand a compare?
If so, the error is non-fatal and you can ignore the error
more or less.

-Wolfgang

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