cgibbons Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 We upgraded to Retrospect server version 6. It's on a Mac OS X 10.2.8 client. Everything (hw & sw) worked fine before the upgrade. But, now none of our Backup Sets will use any of the erased DLT tapes when a new tape is needed. The error 206 pops up and clean media head error. It's not a DLT drive issue. It's Retrospect. New backup sets were created after the version 6 upgrade. Any help would be appreciated. Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Are you using the latest version of the Driver Update? Did you check Dantz's website to be sure that your drive is compatible with the latest version of Retrospect? Assuming that these are OK, it really sounds like a tape or tape drive issue. To confirm this, try launching your previous version of Retrospect. Create a new backup set and attempt to back up to one of the tapes that has been causing problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgibbons Posted April 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Thanks for the reply! I did upgrade to the latest and greatest sw. The Overland drive and the scsi card are fully compatible. It's very strange...but that's a good suggestion to go back to version 5. Just wonder why version 6 cropped up this problem. And, to even further confuse, I could get Retrospect 6 to erase a DLT tape for me and then later it would not find this erased tape to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgibbons Posted April 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 I downgraded to version 5. The media is now seen as formatted with an unrecognized format. The media is useless now. Anyone have ideas??? Thanks, Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Do you mean you get the message "Content Unrecognized?" If so, that would probably mean that the tapes have some v6 data on them, which is incompatible with v5. Go to Configure> Devices> and try erasing the tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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