randomuser Posted August 20, 2003 Report Share Posted August 20, 2003 Hey all. Retrospect is telling me that my DVD+RWs are locked or write-protected after using them once or twice. I am positive I am using DVD+RW.. not DVD-R. Any ideas? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Hi Can you post some details about your device, Retrospect version and OS? Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomuser Posted August 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Yes. I am using Windows XP. It is Retrospect Remote Single Server 6.5. It is an external Sony DRU-510A. Handles just about any type of DVD media you can imagine. Any brilliant ideas? By the way, backup seems to work fine on two of the days to the RW, doesn't work on two other days to the RW, and again works fine on Friday to DVD-R which goes off site. Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 22, 2003 Report Share Posted August 22, 2003 Hi How many disks/sets are we talking about and what do you do with the ones that are write protected? Can you write to them again with another utility? Are you mixing R and RW media in your sets? Are there specific disks that fail or is it all of them eventually? Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomuser Posted August 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2003 "How many disks/sets are we talking about" There are 5 sets... one for each day of the week. "and what do you do with the ones that are write protected" Nothing, so far. "Can you write to them again with another utility" I have not tried this. Should I? "Are you mixing R and RW media in your sets" Yes. I am using RW for Monday through Thursday, and R for Friday. Is that bad? I have it set to ask for "new media" on Fridays. "Are there specific disks that fail or is it all of them eventually" Seems as though 2 sets work and 2 sets don't, but we haven't been doing this long enough to know for sure. I do know that even though it complained about locked media on two days, it then proceeded to work on the other two days. Weird?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Hi I would try reformatting the other RWs and seeing what happens. You can use CDR and CDRW media but you cannot mix them within the same set. i.e. your monday thru thursday sets should only use CDRW media. Since you are using 5 sets you should be fine there. The most likely causes of this problem are flaky media or another program grabbing control of the CD drive. Let us know if you can narrow the failure to only certain sets. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomuser Posted August 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Nate, Thanks for the advice. I'll work on it today and let you know what happens. Thanks again! Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomuser Posted August 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Looks like the answer was not so complicated. A power failure possibly whacked out the DVD drive settings (was working fine before that... lousy afterwards). Re-configging the drive seemed to bring everything back to homeostasis. Weird that no one else has experienced this... but all is well once more. Thnaks for the help, Nate. Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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