Ralf Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 Today I noticed availibility of the 5.1 Update. ....the Readme says: With DVD-RAM support - the fearture may users have waited for. It should cost me 59.99EUR... hmm... for a bugfix..... well ok, if it works it is worth the money (form me), so I have brought it a few minutes ago. First test: DVD-RAM Backup. I own an Panasonic DVD-RAM LF-D521 in a Firewire case. Well, it says at some point at the backup procedure that my drive isn't configured yet and that it needs to do that now. Ok - the drive door opens - closes - opens again and Retrospect says: "Insert a DVD-RW disk for testing." Well, the drive is a dvd-rw drive too, but I want to backup on RVR-RAM. So I insert a DVD-RAM. It tries to initialize the media - and - finally it failed. Cool - good job Dantz! I think I will block the paymant of the 59.59EUR via my creditcard for the update tomorrow. From a developers point of fiew (I am a software developer), I don't get the point of this (big?) issue. Where is the problem to mount a Volume an write to it until the disk is full, eject it, mount the new one and continue with the backup process??????? I can do a program with Cocoa that does a media-change like that in a hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 Agreed... I have been waiting years for the ability to simply read under OS X my Retrospect DVD-RAM backup sets created in OS 9. I wonder if that issue is finally resolved in 5.1. I'm also a long-time Mac software developer and while I'd be loath to criticise the programmers who have built a generally solid product such as Retrospect, I wish there was clearer communication on irritating issues like this. Even if the answer is, as so often with OS X, "Blame Apple." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 Quote: Well, it says at some point at the backup procedure that my drive isn't configured yet and that it needs to do that now At what point, exactly, is this happening? Have you created a Removable Backup Set? If the program asks you for a DVD-RW, and you feed it a DVD-RAM disk instead, why did you expect it to work? You could have told Retrospect _not_ to configure your drive for DVD-RW, in which case it would _not_ have prompted you for a DVD-RW disk, and perhaps then you could have continued with the removable media. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 If you want to use the drive with DVD-RAM media, you must create a Disk Backup Set and not a CD/DVD Backup Set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 Further to my comment above, I'd be interested in 5.1 if it solved the DVD-RAM problem (error 204) described in this ancient Forum posting: http://forums.dantz.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Desktopworkgrupx&Number=4783&Forum=Desktopworkgrupx&Words=toby&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=4783&Search=true#Post4783 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 You can now use Retrospect 5.1 to erase and write to DVD-RAM media without getting an error during the erase attempt. DVD-RAM is once again fully supported with version 5.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunningham Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 I too am glad for the update (does it work?) to fix the DVD-RAM problem that has been happening for a year. What I can't believe is that they are charging us for it. I haven't been able to use Retrospect for as long as I can remember. I did ask for as refund back whenever and never got one. This should be a freebee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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