dkoppka Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Hi all, I recently installed a new DVD-Drive with DVD-RAM capability. Now, I can't get it to work. Training Retrospect to use this drive with a DVD-RAM medium (Verbatim 5x single sided rewritable) fails. A UDF formated disc is labled incompatible. Using removable instead of optical drives when creating a backup set does not recognise the DVD drive. Is a combo DVD-RW/DVD-RAM drive supported by Retrospect with regards to DVD-RAM? DVD-RWs work just fine as optical backup sets. Am I missing something here? Any suggestions? Thanks Dirk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 When using DVD-RAM media, you should be using the removable disk backup set. What exactly happens when you try to use this backup set type when writing to the disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkoppka Posted March 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 I did some more tests and here is what it came up with. I was able to conduct a half Backup on DVD-RAM using a test removable disk backup set. Anyway, for Retrospect to recognise the DVD-RAM I had to open the Windows Explorer and click on the DVD icon before starting Retrospect. It looks like a mount of the DVD-RAM is needed beforehand (using UNIX terminology here). When I close the explorer and start Retrospect it will not recognise the DVD-RAM but treat the DVD drive as an optical drive. I ventured of from my PC while it was conducting the backup and when I came back the screensaver was on. After log on Retrospect seemed to have stuck half way through (progress bar not moving but Retrospect still receptable). I stopped the backup looked at the windows explorer and switched to my C-drive in the explorer viewer. I tried to re-invoke the backup, but Retrospect would not recognise the DVD-RAM anymore. There seems to be something crucial to when Retrospect is actually able to detect a DVD-RAM or otherwise treat the DVD drive as a DVD-RW opticle drive. By the way, I use Windows Vista 64Bit. The DVD-RAM drive is a Samsung SH-S202L. The DVD was formatted in UDF 2.50. Any further ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkoppka Posted March 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Here is the error code: Probleme beim Schreiben: "1-Wichtige Daten 1" (2583277056), Fehler -116 (Volume ist nicht vorhanden) After a few more tests it seems it is mere coincidense if Retrospect recognises DVD-RAM or loses it again. Does Windows Autorun/Autoplay feature have to do something with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkoppka Posted April 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 Well, I've given up on this and thought I let you know. I managed to get one full backup on DVD-RAM, though, but during the very next backup (scheduled) Retrospect did not recognise the DVD-RAM in the drive. A shear pain in the ... you get my point :angry2: . I have gone back to DVD-RW for now. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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