Rev Drive Problem

[sjacobs]

I have managed to render 4 different Rev drives - 2 USB and 2 Firewire - inoperable while using Retrospect V7 (7.0.265 with 7.0.3.101 drivers). Basically it appears that if I allow Retrospect to try and eject the disk - the Rev drive doesn't successfully do that - and instead starts blinking the front eject button light and at that point becomes unresponsive. I have contacted Iomega on this and have gone through their recommendations on fixing the problem - including powering off the drive after disconnecting it from the computer, manually ejecting the disk and trying a new one, etc. Nothing gets the drive out of this state.

 

I suspect the first 2 drives bit the dust because I had the setting turned on to automatically eject a full disk during a backup operation. Over the last couple of days - I blundered I think by using the Retrospect UI to perform an eject via the Configure - Volumns screen.

 

I don't think the drive gets messed up if I eject the disk using the context menu from Windows Explorer.

 

Unfortunately it has taken me 4 drives to figure this out.

 

Has anyone else run into this? Is there some setting that I need to change?

[natew]

Hi

 

I've talked to lots of people using REV drives but have never seen this problem. What happens when you eject using windows? 7.0.326 is the latest 7.0 Retrospect version. Have you tried updating?

 

Thanks

Nate