bobfharris Posted December 30, 2002 Report Share Posted December 30, 2002 My firewire VXA works fine on OSX 10.2.3 and Retrospect 5.0238 with the RDU 3.2.104. However when I updated to the RDU 3.3.104 I notice the Tape drive acted wierd. It would go into the record mode and sit there when it was to be idling causing some problems. Switching back to the older RDU alleviated the problem. Has anyone else noted this problem? harris@bhc.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 In reply to: It would go into the record mode and sit there when it was to be idling causing some problems. When would you see this behavior? What was Retrospect doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobfharris Posted January 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 Normally when I launch a script, the VXA drive is in idle using the RDU 3.2, with only the solid green light in the center lit. With the new RDU 3.3, the VXA drive sits with the amber record arrow lit. And it is balky at responding to the script starting the drive. I also notice it being in the record mode when I inserted a tape and it was just idling with the RDU 3.3 So my question to you still stands. Have they changed something in the RDU 3.3 that affects VXA tape drives???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 In reply to: So my question to you still stands. Have they changed something in the RDU 3.3 that affects VXA tape drives???? No, and I've been testing the VXA-1 Firewire drive on my computer since last week with RDU 3.3. I've backed up and compared multiple gigs of data spanning multiple backup sessions and have not seen a single problem. Try downloading a new version of the RDU 3.3 file - yours may be corrupted. G4 350 OSX 10.2.3 Retrospect 5.0238 RDU 3.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobfharris Posted January 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Yes I will download and check. Did you notice the yellow arrow lite stays on during idle instead of the green lite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 With Retrospect closed the center light is lit green. When Retrospect is first launched, the center light is green. With Retrospect idle after looking at Configure > Devices, the left arrow is green. With RDU 3.2 I see the exact same behavior. Presumably, the left arrow is lit when the drive has a driver loaded. I don't have documentation as to what the light patterns are indicating. I only see the amber light during the backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobfharris Posted January 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 Thanks. I think you were right it was probably a corrupted RDU.. I downloaded the one from Dantz instead of the one I got from Versiontracker on 12/23 and now it works ok.. thanks for the help!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phredd Posted January 16, 2003 Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 When I tried 3.3.104 with my iMac running 10.2.3 and Retrospect Server 2.0.238 the system suddenly started acting as if my tape capacity were only 2 GB and would eject tapes after writing that much. This with a VXA-1 firewire drive. This was using a file downloaded directly from Dantz. Things went back to normal when I returned to RDU 3.2.104, although there is still no hardware compression, despite my making sure that compression was on and prioritized by the drive's firmware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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