johnthemiracle Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 hi! i'm having a problem on retrospect 5.1 latest version on mac osx panther. it tells me (after i configured the internal drive in my powerbook successfully) that for the old projects archive the media are to different from the other members in the archive. it doesn't want to write anything on it although it just finished one such cd and i just configured it to these media. any ideas how i can proceed in working with this archive? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Hi Are you switching between CDR and CDRW media? That can cause these kinds of errors. Did you write these disks with Retrospect 5.1 before you ran the autoconfiguration? If so, can you explain why you needed to run the auto configuration? Thanks Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthemiracle Posted August 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 no, i'm using cdr's only. i wrote these discs before i ran the configuration. retrospect asked me to do so, somewhere in between the workflow. i wondered what was going on and was unsure whether it worked properly or not. so i stopped the backup and did it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthemiracle Posted August 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 i'm trying to restore something from my old backup set that has too different media and the freakin' retrospect can't read the disks anymore!!!!! it says "incompatible"!!! i'm freaking out here! this is incredible! could it be the tracking of my old scsi burner is so different from my currrent drive (built in ibook combo drive) that the drive can't read the old media anymore??? any ideas? please, help me out here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 Hi Its possible that the new drive is having trouble reading disks that were created with the old drive How is your new drive listed in configure->devices->device status? Thanks nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthemiracle Posted August 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2004 it's listed as atapi-a (id), matshita (vendor), cd-rw cw-8123 (product), caot (version), panasonic cd-rw (5.11) (driver). looks like the drive can't read media created with the old drive at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 Hi Be sure to get rid of any .rdi files that are in your Retrospect preferences or the Retrospect program folder. They may be fouling things up. Your drive has native support in Retrospect 5.1 and above with the latest driver update installed. you can get the driver update from the Dantz updates page. You don't need to run the drive configuration wizard. Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthemiracle Posted August 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 there are no rdl files in the program folder. it doesn't work anyway. what should i do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 Hi Try this: make an extra copy of your catalog file somewhere on your drive. Then start a catalog rebuild. Can Retrospect read any of the disks? Thanks Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthemiracle Posted August 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 nope. it says "incompatible". oops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted September 2, 2004 Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 Hi At this point I would try to restore these disks with a different drive. In my experience Apple drives are more likely to have this sort of problem... Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeHutch Posted November 11, 2004 Report Share Posted November 11, 2004 I had a similar problem, with a drive that worked for a while then refused to work. The key thing here is to get rid of any old configuration rdl files, and then start a new backup set. This should allow you auto-configure the drive while doing your backup - don't configure the drive in the Tools tab window, it doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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