I have been using a Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1.5 Tb drive with my MacBook for half a year already. When I bought the drive, I formatted it into HFS+ for better compatibility and have been happy ever since…
Until I bought an Airport Extreme this evening. The ONLY reason I went for the Extreme base station was its USB port which (unlike its little "Express" brother) was capable of sharing a hard drive.
So what am I seeing? — The base station totally refuses to work with the drive constantly repeating "disk needs repair". I have of course gone through the "repair" process using the Disk Utility, and it gives out a perfect green "the disk is OK". And, I repeat, the drive has only one partition that has been formatted into HFS+.
And the most verbose log that the base station is able to produce is...
My base station:
Jul 12 00:06:39 Severity:5 Disk sd0 (Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 4115) plugged in.
Jul 12 00:06:39 Severity:4 Volume dk0 on Disk sd0 (Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 4115) needs repair (256).
Jul 12 00:06:39 Severity:4 Volume dk0 on Disk sd0 (Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 4115) failed to mount (256).
Most of the people reporting the same problem had their drives formatted in whatever else, but not HFS+. I am sure my drive is supposed to work smoothly. They are even called similarly: XTreme hdd and Extreme base station (%
Does anyone have a clue what could be wrong here?
Thank you in advance for your expertise.