elaineblee Posted February 7, 2002 Report Share Posted February 7, 2002 We have a scsi CD-R (APS) that has consistently been giving error 206 bad media, dirty heads during backup and is finicky about retrieving. We recently got a Ricoh that will restore without problem but is again giving us the same error when we try to backup. We are using Retrospect 4.3 on a PowerMac 8500. Any ideas on what is causing this and how we can fix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimHarper3 Posted March 19, 2002 Report Share Posted March 19, 2002 I am having the same problem, I have a beige G3 which was upgraded to a G4, with an external APS CD-R (Sony) drive. The CD-R is on a SCSI chain with an 18Gb External HD--which is what I back up. I have been using this for a long time for backups on an old PowerTower machine and then started getting 206 and 208 errors. I switched the drives to the G3/G4 and got the same errors, figured it was a bad CD-R drive and bought a LaCie Firewire/USB CD-RW (Teac CD-W524E). At first, I could not get Retrospect to back up to it (it turns out to be "Unqualified"--whatever that means), but then Retrospect worked with the old CD-R drive (much slower, but at least it got backed up). That worked for a week or two, and now I am back to getting 208 errors again--on both drives (somehow the Teac is playing nice now)--and have ended up trashing 4-6 CDs trying to make this work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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