Does anyone use a Tandberg LTO-5 with Retrospect 8 on a mac?

[Geoff McLeod]

Just purchased a Tandberg lto-5 drive. I have retrospect 8 but, at this stage, can't seem to get it to recognise the drive. Could be something I'm doing wrong or it might just be the software.
I'm using snow leopard osx on quad core tower. I can perform tests using Tandberg's driver software and everything checks okay. I'm now wondering if I need to use different software?

 

[Dave Blackham]

No idea about Retrospect but BRU works fine. Is it conneted FC or SAS os SCSI ?

 

[Geoff McLeod]

No idea about Retrospect but BRU works fine. Is it conneted FC or SAS os SCSI ?

It's connected to via SAS.

 

[Adam Eden]

Retrospect 8 doesn't work with an LTO 5 drive. Buy BRU PE, it is worth every cent and really easy to use. I went through the same heartache in Jan

 

[Dave Blackham]

SAS works fine we ahve a system here configured with SAS. But i think Adam is right.

Both BRU PE and BRU Server work fine. If you want to do adhoc back ups use PE if you want a more automated process use server. Both work fine and are well worth it.

At the outset just get your system set up correctly re Block and Write cache sizes etc. Run a couple of tests on a gash tape and when your happy then start your backups. Its a great system.

 

[Geoff McLeod]

Thanks Adam and Dave,
You saved me many hours of troubleshooting. I downloaded BRU PE and it works fine. I'm now happily achieving all the raw footage from my projects.

 

[Thomas Mathai]

LTO 5 supports LTFS, so you can write to LTO 5 media like a drive, just like Retrospect, but without the cost.