jeffgman Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 I just purchased a new Exabyte VXA-1 firewire drive. I am running Retrospect 5.0.238 on an iMac running OS X 10.2.6. If I go into Configure Devices, the drive does not show up. Any ideas. I had a DDS-3 firewire drive from Lacie on this machine, with the same problem. I thought the drive was bad so I purchased this new Exabyte. Mabye I was mistaken. If I go into Apple System Profiler, should a tape drive show up under the Firewire devices section? Thanks, Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffgman Posted June 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 Okay, this is driving me crazy. I went and put the new Exabyte drive on my laptop, which is also running 10.2.6 and Apple System Profiler found the drive. So, I decided to change the machine which was running Retrospect. I installed a fresh copy of 10.2.6 on a new iMac 600 and copied over Retrospect. But, the drive cannot be found on this new drive. I do have a Firewire hard drive on this iMac which is running fine. Just the new Exabyte cannot be found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowspawn Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 Quote: If I go into Apple System Profiler, should a tape drive show up under the Firewire devices section? Yes it should. I think Retrospect checks for devices at launch, so if you connect the drive after launching Retrospect you may need to quit and relaunch. If you are having trouble getting the tape drive to show up, I suggest having it on and connected and rebooting the Mac. (I have a flaky firewire hard drive that refuses to mount live over half the time, rebooting with it connected works every time. YMMV) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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