Duaneis Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Yesterday i bought a MadDog MegaSTOR DVD-RW for the local CompUSA store that is going out of business. I decided to start a complete backup this morning, but Retrospect doesn't recognize the drive. I hope there is an RDU for this drive. I searched the forums but found nothing. BTW, I'm running Windows XP up-to-date and Retrospect Pro version 7.5.387 (Driver update 7.5.13.100) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I suspect this is an unsupported drive. What is the exact model that appears in Configure>Devices>Environment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duaneis Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I forgot about having to have Retrospect configure the device. Anyway, what it says is: 1:0:0 MAD DOG TF-DVDRW TSH652G MD00 MADDOG DVD+R - RDI (1.56) I'll give it a shot this afternoon after I get back from about 100 shots with my 9 Mil. Thanks for pointing me in the proper direction. As an aside: I used EMC2 devices when I was a system architect on a main frame computer before I retired 8 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 The info seems to show that you already tried to autoconfigure the drive. I would try again with +R media. The drive is technically unsupported but a configuration with +R might work okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duaneis Posted January 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 I got it to work. What used to take about 30 CD-RW disks now only takes 4 DVD+R disks. Still takes about 2 hours compared to 3 hours before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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