Rob - This is a known problem. It began with one of Jaguars updates and still has not been resolved as far as I know. I talked to Retrospect about it and they told me its an Apple problem. I am sure if you talk to Apple they will say its a Retrospect problem.If you figure it out let me know - I haven't had a good backup in months. On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Rob Lewis wrote: > While trying to back up my hard drive to Apple-brand DVD-R media, > Retrospect tried three times with fresh disks and every time aborted > after a while with "Trouble writing media. Error 206 (drive reported a > failure: dirty heads, bad media, etc.)" Chris Cunningham cdcunningham at attbi.com