Firmware update 7.4.2 for Airport Extreme not good for networked HD LaCie

I'm off to find a link to download the 7.4.1 software, can anyone save me some time and point me to the link?

open "airport utility" (/applications/utilities/Airport Utility), In the Base Station menu, choose Upload Firmware, and choose the appropriate version.

Thanks, also found this article, which said the same, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1218

The article implies, that leaving external devices plugged in during the install could be problematic. This is in fact what I did. Maybe if I had unplugged everything I might not have had any troubles to begin with?

Oops spoke too soon, still getting this error message

http://skitch.com/s2art/bi278/disk-error-message

of course; I have no where to put 380+ gig worth of data, while I re-format?

Same issue with my configuration. This behaviour was introduced with 7.4.2. There are several other threads, I contributed mainly to http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2057098&tstart=0

The only solution so far (for me): re-installed 7.4.1 and I could use my external HDs again.

Here's an update on my woes; reverting to the 7.4.1 firmware didn't give me access to the external usb drive with 3 partitions, that I had connected to my airport extreme.

So, after backing up my data to another drive elsewhere, I re-formatted the drive, and then tried hooking it up to the usb port on the extreme, it still wouldn't work. I gave up at this point. I now have the external drive [dual interface] working as a firewire drive connected to my PPC G5, which is connected via ehternet to the extreme, this now gets my time machine running, on my iBook intel, and I can access any device, I need on the network, provided it's not a usb device plugged into the airport extreme.

So to add to my woes, I cannot print with the printer plugged into the extreme, half the reason I bought it in the first place.

I tried everything I could think of under 7.4.2 (reset, reset to factory, permissions and disk repairs on both external HDs) and none of that worked. I reverted to 7.4.1 and my dives now mount and stay mounted.

Having same problem with Seagate FreeAgent drive after applying 7.4.2

To date, I've found firmware updates for my APE to be quite the crap-shoot 😟

Current problem appears to be with respect to the built-in NAS code on the APE

Continue to search for indications of error source

FYI... The same issue was happening to me. I discovered it after repeated failures of Time Machine, with error messages indicating a mounting failure. I have reverted back to 7.4.1. Does Apple know about this problem?

Are you using afp or smb when you share the disk over the network ? Do you have any Windows clients in your network using the shared drive ?

I had the same problem with wireless TM backups loosing their connection to an AEBS-N running 7.4.2 with a 1.4TB Seagate FreeAgent airdisk. Restarting the cable modem and AEBS did not work. Reinstalling 10.5.7 did not work.

What did work was reverting to firmware 7.4.1 on the AEBS-N.

Here is the TM Buddy log before with 7.4.2 which shows the reoccurring TM backup failure 19 and the disconnect -36:

{quote:title=Failed TM backup with AEBS-N running 7.4.2}{quote}

Starting standard backup
FSMountServerVolumeSync failed with error: -36 for url: afp://Leo%20Bley@Living%20Room%20AEBS%20N. afpovertcp.tcp.local/Leo%20Backup
Attempting mount using URL: afp://Leo%20Bley@Living-Room-AEBS-N.local/Leo%20Backup
FSMountServerVolumeSync failed with error: -36 for url: afp://Leo%20Bley@Living-Room-AEBS-N.local/Leo%20Backup
Backup failed with error: 19

Here is the TM Buddy log on the very next (successful) backup after the AEBS-N was rolled back to firmware 7.4.1:

{quote:title=Successful TM backup with AEBS-N running 7.4.1}{quote}

Starting standard backup
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Leo%20Bley@Living%20Room%20AEBS%20N. afpovertcp.tcp.local/Leo%20Backup
Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/Leo Backup
Disk image /Volumes/Leo Backup/Leo's MacBook_002332b703ee.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Leo's MacBook
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of Leo's MacBook/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 504.38 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Copied 10264 files (7.7 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 613.3 MB requested (including padding), 504.38 GB available
Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Copied 21844 files (39.6 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
Found partially deleted backup - trying again to delete: 2009-06-04-084836
Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Leo's MacBook/Backups.backupdb/Leo's MacBook/2009-06-04-084836: 504.35 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Leo's MacBook/Backups.backupdb/Leo's MacBook/2009-06-03-025328: 504.35 GB now available
Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
Backup completed successfully.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.

Thanks everyone!

I have two drives that are connected to a powered USB 2.0 hub and connected to my AirPort Extreme router. One drive is a LaCIE 250GB drive that I'm using as a Time Machine storage for two Macbook Pros. The other drive is an HFS+ formatted 1.5TB Seagate drive that just contains video files that I play on a Mac Mini running Plex.

Approximately since installing the 7.4.2 update, neither Macbook Pro has been able to use Time Machine to back up. In Finder, the Airport share shows up in the left column, but clicking on it says Connection Failed and trying to use Connect As... tells me that the server may not exist or is not operational on every Mac on my network. If I restart the AirPort either by unplugging it or through the AirPort utility, I'm able to see both drives in the Finder again and start Time Machine backing up, but within an hour or so, it disconnects Time Machine and reverts back to not connecting.

What's interesting is that Plex running on the Mac Mini only supports Samba for network drives and thus, it can only load the videos on the 1.5TB video drive via a SMB connection. Even when I'm not able to connect to the drives in Finder or Time Machine, it has no problem playing the videos, which should isolate this issue down to AFP and not all file sharing on the router.

In a little while, I'll be trying to load the older 7.4.1 firmware back on the router and I expect that this should fix the problem.

I installed the older firmware last night and I've been able to do back-ups to Time Machine without issue for the last 14 hours.

Also, I don't have any proof of this, but since Plex regularly checks the drive for new shows, I'll surmise that the Samba connection to the AirPort starting MIGHT be what's causing Apple File Sharing to break until the router is restarted. I haven't done anything to test this theory, though.

Been having the same problem, only difference is using a WD 500Gb HD, and the fix has been to go back to 7.4.1.. Yesterday I upgraded the Mac to 10.5.8 and decided to try upgrading the airport but no success.

Looks like the 7.4.2 problems are still in OS 10.5.8.. Hope to see a new Airport update soon.

I had same issue with my LaCei drive but fixed it following the instructions from HenryS:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2057098&tstart=0&start=60

1. I upgraded to 7.4.2.
2. Saving all of my configuration data (File > Save a Copy As...).
3. Reset the AEBS to it's factory default settings (Base Station > Restore Default Settings).
4. Reloaded the Configuration data from the Saved settings (File > Import).