KBACKUP 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, KBACKUP will as well. KBACKUP is able to autodetect your tape device and test it for compatibility.
I am using and testing KBACKUP with a (rather old) Tandberg drive on a no-name QIC-02 controller. The QIC-02 LINUX driver implements the `` /dev/tape-reset '' device, so KBACKUP can use it to reset the driver at your request. I have not heard of any other driver supplying this pseudo--device.