JosephH6 Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Has anyone had a similar problem and been able to fix it? I just installed Retrospect 5.1 (with 5.1 scsi update) on a new PowerMac G5. Backup and restore to DVD works fine. Backup to tape works as long as it is done in one single session. If Retrospect is quit and restarted, I get Catalog out of sync errors. Catalog update existing hangs without ever accessing the tape drive. Complete rebuild of catalog from tape is extremely slow due to Backup set format inconsistency errors and Bad backup set header errors (causing Resynchronizing...slow messages). However, if backup was done in one session, Restore works fine if no additional backups are attempted to that tape set. Configuration: 1.8 GHz PowerMac G5 1 GB RAM Mac OS X 10.2.8 (G5) Adaptec 29160 PCI LVD SCSI card (latest driver from Adaptec) Sony SDT-11000 DDS4 DAT tape drive (LVD SCSI) Retrospect 5.1.175 with 5.1 SCSI update, RDU 4.1.109 I have worked with Sony technicians using Sony OS X tape diagnostics and have verified that the tape is being written and read (using Sony diagnostics) without any errors (soft, hard, or retrys), so I am down to believing that the error is in Retrospect. Since the backup can be restored without error if the backup was made in one session, I am guessing that the problem lies in the code that checks catalog and compares it to the tape. Any suggestions would be appreciated. - Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmseiden Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 Retro latest version is 5.1.167 and you might check client security updater as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH6 Posted October 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 After running the PowerMac OS X SCSI update, the Retrospect version is 5.1.175. The above problem has nothing to do with clients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted October 29, 2003 Report Share Posted October 29, 2003 Hi I just checked adaptec's site and I don't see anything about G5 support. Atto released a new driver just to be compatible and Dantz had to release an update for that as well. My hunch is that the adapter driver is not going to work with your new G5 Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH6 Posted November 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 Adaptec just changed their site to say that, after some (minimal) testing of the 29160, 39160, 29160N on both G5 and Panther (independently), they found no new issues. That seems to confirm what I originally posted after running Sony tape drive diagnostics... This appears to be a Retrospect driver problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 Minimal testing does not mean that Adaptec has tested these cards with tape devices. It is possible that the cards are working with hard disks and other devices. Dantz will investigate to see if tape is working as it should with these cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH6 Posted November 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 I agree that Adaptec may not have tested the 29160 with tape drives yet. However, the fact that Sony tape drive diagnostics (software apps run on G5, accessing tape drive through 29160) run without error indicates fairly good compatibility of the 29160 with both the G5 and this tape drive. By the way, the Sony diagnostics run for 30 minutes or more, transferring gigabytes of data to and from the tape drive. - Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 I posted this elsewhere, but... Panther installs the *1.1* driver for the Adaptec 29160 and 39160 cards. Even if you upgrade from Jaguar with the 1.2 drivers -- Panther will replace them with 1.1. You might check to make sure you have the 1.2 drivers. If not, you can get them from Adaptec's web site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH6 Posted December 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 I saw someone's post (maybe yours) regarding Panther overwriting the 1.2 Adaptec 29160 driver with the 1.1 version before I upgraded to Panther, so that was taken care of and is not an issue. Thanks for trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH6 Posted February 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2004 A thousand apologies to Dantz! I finally broke down and bought an ATTO card (UL4S) and everything works great! Not a single bad header or any other error. Anyone want to buy an Adaptec 29160? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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