toby Posted April 17, 2002 Report Share Posted April 17, 2002 Hi, I have a DVD-RAM backup set spanning 40-odd sides, created using Retrospect 4.2 under Mac OS 9. I've just upgraded the machine to OS X (10.1.3) and tried to restore from the archive; the requested member DVD-RAM mounts fine on the Finder desktop but Retrospect 5.0 complains "error 204 (device busy)". According to Device Status it's a MATSHITA PD-2 LF-D110 version A110. Any clues? Toby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheppard Posted April 17, 2002 Report Share Posted April 17, 2002 Two things to try: 1) Turn off file sharing on the server. This got me around a problem with using new DVD-RAM media, but it might help you too. Once the media is recognized, you can turn file sharing back on. 2) Try repairing the catalog. R 5.0 doesn't seem to recognize the media at times and this has always worked for me to have the media acceptable for backup again. Can you test with R 4.3 and see if this is a totally new problem with 5.0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby Posted May 3, 2002 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2002 1) no file server is involved. Personal File Sharing is off. 2) Repairing the catalogue (under OS 9, of course) makes no difference. We own version 4.2 but (having subsequently bought upgrade to 5.0) are not interested in 4.3, so can't test under 4.3. But the "error 204 (device is busy)" error persists whenever we attempt a retrieval under OS X using the DVD-RAM archive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrenaS Posted May 6, 2002 Report Share Posted May 6, 2002 Have you tried repairing the catalogs under OS X? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby Posted May 6, 2002 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2002 Yes, I've tried repairing the catalogue under OS X. After doing that, I still get the Device busy error after inserting a requested DVD-RAM member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrenaS Posted May 8, 2002 Report Share Posted May 8, 2002 When you mount these DVDs in the finder, do they show up as write-protected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby Posted May 17, 2002 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2002 Many of them *are* write protected, as they are a permanent archive. However, I can read and write DVD-RAM media normally in the (OS X) Finder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrenaS Posted May 20, 2002 Report Share Posted May 20, 2002 Do you have any that are not write-protected? Do these show the same behavior? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby Posted May 29, 2002 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2002 Irena, Good suggestion - removing write protection indeed allows retrieval to work on the existing archive, under OS X. As did creating a new archive on new unlocked media. Re-locking the disk prevents retrieval, resulting in the "busy" error as previously described. Naturally, I'd really prefer a way to keep them protected and still retrieve. Toby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby Posted June 2, 2002 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2002 (Further tests show that removing write protection doesn't solve the problem all the time, either) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby Posted June 20, 2002 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2002 Obviously I am making no headway on the problem in this forum (perhaps because it's not actually Retrospect's fault). I will attempt a solution via Apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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