Retrospect and CD-RW drives: TEAC; Sony

Retrospect and TEAC drives: a follow-up We have previously noted that Retrospect does not work with TEAC-based QPS CD-RW drives. Henry Cline received a detailed reminder of this from Dantz: "Check to see which of the two QueFire 12x10x32 drives you have. Open Retrospect and go to Configure > Devices. Click the Device Status button. Does it name your CD-RW drive as 'CD-R PX-W1210A' (which is made by Plextor) or "'CD-W512EB' (which is made by TEAC)? If it is the PX-W1210A, then it is a supported drive. If it is the CD-W512EB, then it is not. We have been experiencing problems with the QPS TEAC version of this drive, and it is not qualified for use with Retrospect."

Thomas Armbruester found that he could get a TEAC W-516EB to work with Retrospect in OS 9.2.1, with the latest updates, as covered here.

James Walker writes: "I recently bought a QPS16x10x40x FireWire CD-RW drive, which turned out to have a TEAC mechanism. This drive is listed on the Dantz web site as being compatible with Retrospect. When I tried it with Retrospect, it worked, but only at about 2x speed! Dantz Support told me they knew about this problem, but since the drive 'worked,' they had to list it as compatible. I returned the drive."

Sony drive not "seen" Gary Hobish writes: "I've installed the Retrospect Driver Update 2.2, and the Retrospect Extensions update but Retrospect 4.3 still does not see the Sony CRX140e drive in my G4/533MP. Dantz told me they had had other reports of this nature from other 9.1 users, and they were looking into the problem and expected to issue a fix shortly. The update works fine in 9.2.1."