sabbott Posted July 6, 2003 Report Share Posted July 6, 2003 I have retrospect 5.6 Express and am attempting to read some wedding photos which I placed on 90M DAT tapes tapes 8 years ago. The tapes were only ever used once (the original write) and were stored correctly. At the time, I wrote the tapes with Retrospect 2.1 on my Macintosh. I'm using a Sony DDS-2 drive of the same type and from the same era that I used at that time (although not the exact unit that wrote these tapes) with a new adaptec USB SCSI adapter on 98SE laptop. I can see the tape drive fine; it recognizes when I insert a tape, correctly identifies that it is write protected, etc. However, after briefly displaying "(Wrong version)" in the status field, retrospect then says, "Content unrecognized", and displays "(Unknown)" for tape name. Of course it will not attempt to recreate a catalog at this point. It is the same behavior with all such tapes. Is the current windows retrospect in fact unable to read tapes created with the older macintosh software? Before buying the new retrospect, I sent an email to dantz presales support and was assured it would work, however.... Can anyone provide any suggestions as to how I might read these my old tapes? Thanks for any ideas in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 6, 2003 Report Share Posted July 6, 2003 Retrospect for Windows can not read tapes created with Retrospect for Macintosh. You would need to use the Macintosh product to read the Macintosh tapes. http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=26738 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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