mds Posted April 10, 2002 Report Share Posted April 10, 2002 Hello All: I'm having trouble getting Retrospect 5 to recognize my firewire removable hard drives in OS X. I can see them fine in the apple system profiler, as well as my desktop, but Retrospect sees no devices nor drivers??? Also, when I boot into classic, Retrospect does see them, but I get "Content Unrecognized". I updated my firmware and got the lastest firewire drivers from apple, but still no luck. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Also, If I can't get OS X to see the firewire drives, can I ever get it working back on my old machine with OS 9.2, now that I am getting this "Content Unrecognized" error? Thanks in advance mds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy3rd Posted April 10, 2002 Report Share Posted April 10, 2002 If it's not on their list of compatible drives, it's not supported. Retrospect Express was the last $50 they'll ever get from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted April 17, 2002 Report Share Posted April 17, 2002 Retrospect should never see a hard drive drive listed as a "device" under Configure > Devices. This window is designed to show media devices such as tape drives, CD burners and Zip drives. In order to backup to a hard drive, you must create a File backup set within Retrospect. When creating a new File backup set under Configure > Backup Sets, you will be given the option of saving the file to the external firewire hard drive. Please refer to the Dantz tutorial for backing up to hard drives: http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=tutorials You'll need to check with the hard drive vendor to ensure that the firewire drive is OS X compatible. In most cases the drive will need to be formatted under OS X before it can be used properly under OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekr0phage Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 Quote: If it's not on their list of compatible drives, it's not supported. Retrospect Express was the last $50 they'll ever get from me. It doesn't need to be supported, it's just a hard drive. No advanced writing methods are required. The only thing that could be troublesome would be uncommon connection types, of which direct firewire is hardly one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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