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jb
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| devo wrote: | | Wow, it does work! I plugged another one of my drives in and bingo. I don't know why it didn't see the first drive, but I'm a happy camper now. Kudos to Apple for coming through on this. I also feel like a genius for retuning a TC now. |
If after the update, TM does not see your drive, it appears that a repartition or sometimes just a disk repair will fix the problem.
File type NEEDS to be HFS journaled.
I had this experience, and after a web search discovered this tip, which worked for me.
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| Ephilei wrote: | | Any ideas if this will work on external HDDs attached to Macs? I'm using my Mini as a server for a MacBook - it would be nice not to have to move the HDD every time I want to backup. It worked in the Leopard beta. I'm downloading now. |
This update has nothing to do with Time Machine's ability to use hard drives connected to Macs on a network. That has been functional and working since 10.5.0 and continues to do so 
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jb
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| ClunkClunk wrote: | | This update has nothing to do with Time Machine's ability to use hard drives connected to Macs on a network. That has been functional and working since 10.5.0 and continues to do so |
Not quite accurate, the latest update makes it easy by finding the AirDisk without the need for an unsupported Terminal Hack.
The code Apple is using is different then the previous unsupported Hack in as much as the terminal Hack found my AirDisk and also found my non Apple NAS shares.
While the latest Apple update only finds and allows my AirDisk.
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Pleiades
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| jb wrote: | | Not quite accurate, the latest update makes it easy by finding the AirDisk without the need for an unsupported Terminal Hack. |
Ephilei's question was about external hard drives connected to a Mac as a Time Machine destination, not about external hard drives connected to an Airport Extreme using AirDisk as a Time Machine destination.
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jb
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| ClunkClunk wrote: | | jb wrote: | | Not quite accurate, the latest update makes it easy by finding the AirDisk without the need for an unsupported Terminal Hack. |
Ephilei's question was about external hard drives connected to a Mac as a Time Machine destination, not about external hard drives connected to an Airport Extreme using AirDisk as a Time Machine destination. |
Actually I knew that, Iwas just testing to see if you were paying attention. 
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| I got my AirPort Extreme from the UPS man about an hour ago. Setup was really easy. And it seems to be working ok with Time Machine. The backup is just going super slow. I really wish there was a flashing indicator light on the front of this thing instead of the massive green one. I already miss looking over at my old router and checking for activity. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| scooper wrote: | | I got my AirPort Extreme from the UPS man about an hour ago. Setup was really easy. And it seems to be working ok with Time Machine. The backup is just going super slow. I really wish there was a flashing indicator light on the front of this thing instead of the massive green one. I already miss looking over at my old router and checking for activity. |
You can set the status light to flash on activity. Open up the AirPort Utility and hit the manual setup button. Then go to the AirPort panel > Base Station and click the options button. There is a drop down menu half way down for the status light. Just change it from the default to flash on activity. |
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| devo wrote: | | You can set the status light to flash on activity. Open up the AirPort Utility and hit the manual setup button. Then go to the AirPort panel > Base Station and click the options button. There is a drop down menu half way down for the status light. Just change it from the default to flash on activity. |
I saw that after posting, but thanks. Now I wish there was a way to make the light smaller. It's a little on the bright side. |
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