djkerber Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 I have been using Retrospect since it first came out on the Mac (1991?). Anyway, I now run 6.5.336/RDU 4.5.101 on WinXP. I have recently installed a NEC 1300A DVD +-R/RW drive and can not get it to configure. I talked w/ Dantz tech support yesterday and told them that I have tried CD-R (worked) DVD-RW (failed), and DVD+R (failed). Tech support suggested that I try DVD+RW and that should work no problem. Guess what? - it failed too. Anyone have any ideas other that to wait for drive certification? Thanks!! DK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 Hi You can try installing ASPI to see if that helps. How is this device connected to your machine? What are the other attached devices on the bus? Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djkerber Posted October 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2003 ASPI has been installed previous to this problem. I have two IDE hard drives, a DVD ROM, and a DVD writer. My current work around is to back up to disk (4.4 GB max member size) and then use Nero to burn to a +RW DVD. So far so good. BTW: Nero was installed AFTER I started having problems with the configurator. Hopefully Dantz will have a driver update out soon. Any other suggestions would be much apprciated. Thanks, Dale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted October 30, 2003 Report Share Posted October 30, 2003 Hi If you have had ASPI from the start we may want to try it the other way around - using NT passthrough instead. to do this type ctrl + ALT + P +P at any window in Retrospect. In the preferences window that is displayed click on the "execution" heading and enable NT passthrough. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djkerber Posted November 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2003 I finally got around to changing the setting and retrying using NT SCSI passtrhough. Works great and Retrospect works much faster now. Is that the DVD drive or the passthrough? What does ASPI do for me anyway. Many thanks!! DK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 Hi NT passthrough and ASPI are just different ways of talking to the device and I/O bus. Some devices prefer ASPI but most do just fine with NT passthrough. It's hard to say what the actual solution was but NT passthrough is a likely candidate. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlemons Posted January 3, 2004 Report Share Posted January 3, 2004 FYI, I have a NEC ND-1300A in a new emachines T2865, and Retrospect Professional 6.5 did a great job of automatically configuring it. It wrote a DVD-R drive Custom Configuration Test Disk. I then did a full backup to a different piece of DVD-R media, and then an 'incremental' backup to the same piece of media. I also did a restore, which worked fine. I didn't need to do any special configuration or twiddling at all. I'm very impressed at how Retrospect did this custom configuration. It even prompted me to enter a different type of media. I'm going to try this, when I get some DVD-RW media. tl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrwsrtx Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 Cannot get retrospect to change from aspi use to nt pass through? Thanks, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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