Iomega Home Network Storage connection issue

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Iomega Home Network Storage connection issue

I have a Iomega 1 TB Home Media Network Storage drive that I have connected via Ethernet to my Airport Extreme Base Station. I can not see the drive when I am attached to the Network from any machine, but when I directly connect the Drive to my machine via Ethernet or a Hub I can see the drive no problem. Does anyone know where the issue might lie?

For a little more info this is primarily a Windows Airport network with several flavors of Vista and Windows 7 running on it. I have a Airport Express connected to a Clear WiMax Modem as my primary access to my ISP. I have extended this Network downstairs (via Wireless N 5MHz) to my Airport Extreme Base Station for Gigabit through put for my Media Center set up. This is where my Iomega drive lives and is connected via Ethernet as I stated. Both Airports are running firmware 7.4.2. The Iomega drive is formatted NTFS and can not (as far as I know) be reformatted to FAT32 or another flavor of FAT.

Does anyone know if a earlier version of firmware would resolve this? Thank you so much for taking a look at this for me.....

Many different, Windows Vista

Posted on Feb 19, 2010 8:40 PM

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Tesserax

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Feb 19, 2010 11:11 PM in response to afnstech

The Iomega drive is formatted NTFS and can not (as far as I know) be reformatted to FAT32 or another flavor of FAT.

The problem is that drives, formatted in NTFS, are not "readable" as AirPort Disks. They must be formatted in either HFS+, FAT16 or FAT32.

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Feb 19, 2010 11:45 PM in response to Tesserax

I see your point but TCP/IP Packets are TCP/IP packets right? I am not attempting to add this as a Airport Disk. This NAS uses a proprietary application to "talk" to the drive. I am not attempting to add it in the Airport Utility as a drive there. I just simply want Airport to pass the TCP packets that this box puts out. I had a Airport Extreme with a older firmware version that ran this Drive just fine. Once I had Apple replace it for a hardware failure it doesn't work anymore.

I think that I just might have answered my own question, so does anyone know where I can get a copy of the 7.4.1 firmware version? I tried to just go into Airport Utility and do a search for updates but it didn't return anything.

Anyone else have any ideas?

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Tesserax

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Feb 20, 2010 11:34 AM in response to afnstech

I'm sorry, you are correct. You even stated in your very first sentence that you were connecting this device by Ethernet ... and I was "seeing" USB.

When connected by Ethernet, the AirPort should be a "passive" device not providing any form of file server management ... so I'm not sure why clients to this NAS device are unable to communicate with it for access. Although, your comment on using the earlier firmware may be a viable option. Depending on our AirPort model, it should be available using the AirPort Utility's "Upload Firmware" feature.

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