iimnynames Posted November 30, 2003 Report Share Posted November 30, 2003 Forgive me if this topic has been addressed, but I could not find a satisfactory answer and am new to this forum. I just acquired my copy of Retrospect Desktop Backup v5.1.175 and am having difficulty creating backup sets. If anyone is using a similar configuration successfully or has any input, I would welcome it. I am running this product on my PowerMAC G5 running 10.3.1 and I am attempting to create a backup set on my LaCie 500GB Firewire800 BigDisk. The main issue is that the device scan does not come up with my firewire drive and therefore I cannot create a backup set. I checked hardware incompatibility list and could not find my device and when I called prior to purchasing the drive or the retrospect product, I was told that if it could be found in the finder and mounted on the desktop, then it should work. Well, its on the desktop and I can drag stuff on and off of it all day long, but it still won't recognize it. When I did the other search for hardware incompatibility, I did not see a field for firewire800 support, only for the firewire400/ IEEE 1394 protocol. I am getting the idea that Dantz doesn't currently support firewire800 at this time and I now have no backup device or protection. I did check the latest RDU and my device was not listed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Hi Your Drive is fully supported in Retrospect. Take a look at the "backup to hard disk tutorial" http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=27501 You should also take a look at this just in case- apple has identified some data loss issues with panther and Firewire800 drives: http://www.apple.com/macosx/firewire800specialmessage.html Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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