AirPort Update Extends Time Capsule, Adds AirDisk Support

On 30 Mar 2008, at 13:12, Scott Horton wrote:

> I assume that Apple does not officially support the AirDisk and I have
> read where many people are using it as a Time Machine backup. However,
> I cannot seem to get it to work.
>
> I have a 250 GB LaCie drive (circa 2004) with USB and FW800 ports and
> have connected it to the Airport Extreme via USB. Using Airport
> Utility setting it up was easy. I have tried every combination of no
> password, password, accounts, reformatting always as HFS+ journaled,
> GUID and APM partition, etc. Never will it appear in Time Machine to
> select as a backup disk. Can't select it both on a G4 and a MacBook
> Pro, both running OS 10.5.2.
>
> I can mount the disk, read, write and otherwise use it as an airdisk,
> but, alas, no time machine.

Strange! I believe I have exactly the same disk as you've described.
It works with TM just fine. Once I connect to it by double clicking on
its name in a finder window, time machine begins backing up.

If you like I can send you the parameters I'm using so you can compare
them with yours; but I don't believe I'm doing anything special to
make this work.

Did you update your firmware on the Airport Extreme as well as update
the Airport Utility as described in the article?

Geoff

Hmmm... weird. I too have had it mounted on my finder desktop and still Time Machine hasn't recognized it, thought I can read and write to the disk via the finder.

So, sure, please send the parameters and I'll triple check what I have been doing.

Thanks,

SH