error 100 and error 206

[RPMI]

Using the trial version of Retrospect Desktop.

 

Tried for first time this morning with Sony DVD-R's and kept getting a 'error 100 (device rejected command)' message as it was about to backup.

 

Just tried with Sony CD-R's and it seemed to be doing it but then gave me this error 'Trouble writing media "1-Backup Set E" error 206 (drive reported a failure: dirty heads, bad media etc.)'.

 

I tried backing up from the server to my Macs hard drive and that worked fine.

 

I am using a G5 running 10.3.9 and it has a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-117D inside.

 

Any ideas? Obviously the DVD drive or the DVD/CDs?

 

Thanks

[Mayoff]

The current driver update does not support -R media. Have you tried +R media?

 

CD media isn't support with this drive, only DVD+R

[RPMI]

Really? You mean using Retrospect or in general? Because we use these all the time with Toast Titanium and never had a problem.

[CallMeDave]

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You mean using Retrospect or in general?

 

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He means Retrospect, which writes to optical media with Packet Writing, an entirely different method then Toast uses.

 

Retrospect can write any amount of data, even a single file, to a disc, as many times as it needs to. With Toast, you'd have a new volume in the Finder each and every time you added data to the disc, along with a great amount of capacity lost to session overhead.

 

The price of a single quality DVD+R disc is much less then the price of the 7 quality CD-R discs that would have comparable capacity. And it's a lot easier to keep track of fewer Members of your Backup Set!

 

 

Dave

[RPMI]

Great thanks, will try some DVD+R's!