Airport disk: connection failed

I have been having this problem for ages....
Regardless of TM, my external hard drive, connected to my AEBS, just loses connection all the time. The only way to get it back is to reboot it, or at least unplug/replug it.

I downgraded to 7.4.1- but I've found that since upgrading to snow leopard, I drop my internet connection on 7.4.1, which is more important to me than being able to access my external drive.
But there are a lot of threads about this, and it seems to be a huge problem- not sure why apple won't do anything about it.

I just reformatted the drive, and thought things were working- but then it disconnected again.

I will try 7.3.1- and hope that helps.

Unfortunately, I also like to play music via airtunes, and was having horrible dropouts- that were only fixed by 7.4.2.

Just wanted to hop on here and say I'm having the same issue. Pretty upsetting... I'll try the downgrade and let everyone know in a few days.

I have been having the same network disk connect problem and I would like to downgrade the firmware using Airport Utility in an attempt to fix this problem.

I've gone through the process of holding down the option key and choosing CHECK FOR UPDATES, selecting my firmware choice, watching the progress bar as that version of the firmware downloads (verified by my Istat menu network monitor).

But when I choose UPLOAD FIRMWARE.... it opens a dialogue box prompting me to choose the downloaded file, and I can't find it anywhere on my hard drive. Where does it download this to?

A finder search for the file using keywords like Airport and the firmware version number can't seem to locate it.

Thoughts?

I'm having the same problem with network dropouts. Downgrading doesn't seem to help.

Any ideas?

BIG MAC ROB,

In the AirPort Utility, select BaseStation at the top menu bar...

Select Upload Firmware...

Then select the older firmware from the drop down menu, and you're away.

Enjoy.

I've been having the same problem for months and have searched around for answers, but haven't found one. Does anyone from Apple have an answer?

Hi guys, i join the club my time machine worked until Febrary, now is useless when it starts to calculate the size of the backup it got stock, and my drive is disconected, same errors as you guys, actually i got this from the log at once it's disconected:

(com.apple.netauth.sysagent[570]) exited with exit code 255

i tried everything is written in this forum except the downgrade, i don't what to risk myself to lose all my config is realy lame to unplug my disk and plug it again, that's not the porpouse to have a wireless devices, hope apple guys say something about it 😉

Hi All,

I thought I would join the crowd with a similar problem that happens when I run ChronoSync on my AirDisk drive. I have the newest model AirPort (Dual Band) with the latest firmware and a brand new FantomDrives HD. I just replaced my older external HD thinking it was going bad, but the problem seems to be with the router. In my case, syncing my iPhoto library (~46GB) as an open package causes the router to crash. It seems related to the number of files that are processed. When I copy the library as a monolithic file, it works just fine. The crash is fully repeatable, which means it's fully frustrating. Using the AirDisk to backup my iPhoto library was the reason I bought the thing!

Anyway, I do hope Apple is listening. I'm contemplating calling and raising this issue with some poor tech support person at Apple. This is just too much!

Are your discs formated FAT32?

I had a WD MyBook splitted into two partitions, one for TM, that was always mounting without problems, and a FAT 32 one that was usable only after a disconnect and reconnect of the drive to the basestation (never waking up from stand by).

I am not absolutely shure if formatting it HFS+ (journalled) alone solved the problem, because I also did a firmware update to the drive then.

OS X Update 10.6.3 improved my airport disk connectivity.

http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=supportsite.home&locale=enUS&q=10.6.3

AEBN firmware is 7.4.2

Dave

Although I see definite improvement after installing 10.6.3, I am still losing my airport disk connection some times. I suspect the cause is a period of inactivity of approximately one hour or more but I am not sure.

There is nothing special about my set up.
OS X 10.6.3
AEBN firmware 7.4.2
one airport shared disk drive