Wardy Posted March 8, 2003 Report Share Posted March 8, 2003 Hello - I couldn't find this problem elsewhere on the forum but I couldn't really think what to search for. Sorry if it's been brought up before. After much hesitation, I decided to used DVD-R disks (purchased from Apple) in my 15" iMac G4 800MHz (with built-in Pioneer DVR-104) instead of CD-R disks. I've been successfully backing up to CD-R disks for some time, with the occasion hardware fault which I assumed was a CD-R media problem. It usually worked ok when I put the next disk in. I bought the DVD-R disks about a year ago but they've been stored out of the Sun etc. The backup set for the day was a "new media" type ( appending [002] to the name). It failed with: Code: + New Media backup using iMovie + Pics + Movies (N) at 5/3/2003 10:13 PM To backup set Documents A [001]? 5/3/2003 10:13:17 PM: New Media backup: The backup set replaced with Documents A [002] - 5/3/2003 10:13:17 PM: Copying iMovie on Macintosh HD? Trouble writing: ?1-Documents A [002]? (4290772992), error 203 (hardware failure). Additional error information for device "Pioneer DVD/CD-RW" [0:1], Sense > (PIONEER |DVD-RW DVR-104 |A227) Member skipped: ?1-Documents A [002]? 6/3/2003 8:56:46 PM: Execution stopped by operator. Remaining: 32 files, 845.1 MB Completed: 140 files, 4.0 GB Performance: 40.7 MB/minute Duration: 22:43:29 (21:03:33 idle/loading/preparing) 6/3/2003 8:56:46 PM: Execution stopped by operator. Total duration: 22:43:29 (21:03:33 idle/loading/preparing) I cancelled the backup thinking the experiment was a bad idea and let the other backup sets I had run to CD-R. Then the same backup set came up again in the schedule. Despite the iniital shock of losing an $11 DVD-R I thought I'd put a second one in. This time there was no hardware error but the disk didn't fill up. It only copied about 1Gb on it before it requested disk #3. I put in disk 3 with a sinking feeling and then it asked for disk 4, after only copying 1Gb onto disk 3. Enough was enough so I cancelled it, and ran a manual new media for the backup set. Then it ran ok onto CD-R disks. Any ideas? I don't want to "coaster" any more of these expensive DVD-R disks! Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardy Posted March 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2003 Well, as a related issue - is anyone using Retrospect 5 using the internal iMac burner (Pioneer) with Apple DVD-R media? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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