Airport Disk Issues
Ok, so I know that there are several threads on similar topics already, but none have helped, so I am posting anew.
Got a new AirPort Express Base Station to replace an older WAP that was giving me issues. I was thinking about it and realized that it would be much more convenient to have my 500GB drive connected to the network so that I didn't have to rewire my other computer every time I wanted to use it. It is a Seagate drive in a MadDog USB 2.0/FireWire enclosure. Works great connected to my computer directly, nice and fast.
So, I connect it to the AEBS and configure to use the base station PW to log into the disk. Works OK the first time, but I can't view any of my files. So I came here to the boards. People suggest reformatting the disk, so I did (after copying 60GB to my MBP. After reformatting I connected the disk back to the AEBS and figured that I would transfer the files back via the network (good way to test speed I thought). Well, that didn't work, didn't even copy one file before I got an error. So I connected the drive back to my computer and transferred the files back.
Now I connect the drive to the AEBS and my computer automatically prompts me for the PW and connects to the drive. Again, can't see the files. Further digging here says put the files in the "Shared" folder. Did this and it works.... ONCE... I wanted to see if this was a fluke, and of course it was. I unmounted the drive from Finder and tried to reconnect and the Airport Disk Utility sits beach balling and my AEBS resets itself. Once the AEBS comes back on, the disk mounts, but no visible files and I can't copy files to it, I get an error that says the file name is too long.
Reboot AEBS and try again, this time same drill, try to mount the disk and the AEBS resets, now it is sitting with a flashing amber light, Airport Utility says "Disk Needs Repair" This just doesn't make sense to me.
I usually have no problem getting all things Apple to work, but this is a real bugger. By all accounts of what I have read here on the boards, i have done everything right and it should work, and yet... There have also been a bunch of people who have said that Apple tech support was really not helpful, and I don't really want to sit on the phone waiting to talk to a tech who probably knows less than I do. So I would appreciate any insight you guys might have cause this is going to drive me nuts. I mean this is a great feature, but it should work or they should fix it darn fast!
(cross posted in Mac Fixit Forums)
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM
Got a new AirPort Express Base Station to replace an older WAP that was giving me issues. I was thinking about it and realized that it would be much more convenient to have my 500GB drive connected to the network so that I didn't have to rewire my other computer every time I wanted to use it. It is a Seagate drive in a MadDog USB 2.0/FireWire enclosure. Works great connected to my computer directly, nice and fast.
So, I connect it to the AEBS and configure to use the base station PW to log into the disk. Works OK the first time, but I can't view any of my files. So I came here to the boards. People suggest reformatting the disk, so I did (after copying 60GB to my MBP. After reformatting I connected the disk back to the AEBS and figured that I would transfer the files back via the network (good way to test speed I thought). Well, that didn't work, didn't even copy one file before I got an error. So I connected the drive back to my computer and transferred the files back.
Now I connect the drive to the AEBS and my computer automatically prompts me for the PW and connects to the drive. Again, can't see the files. Further digging here says put the files in the "Shared" folder. Did this and it works.... ONCE... I wanted to see if this was a fluke, and of course it was. I unmounted the drive from Finder and tried to reconnect and the Airport Disk Utility sits beach balling and my AEBS resets itself. Once the AEBS comes back on, the disk mounts, but no visible files and I can't copy files to it, I get an error that says the file name is too long.
Reboot AEBS and try again, this time same drill, try to mount the disk and the AEBS resets, now it is sitting with a flashing amber light, Airport Utility says "Disk Needs Repair" This just doesn't make sense to me.
I usually have no problem getting all things Apple to work, but this is a real bugger. By all accounts of what I have read here on the boards, i have done everything right and it should work, and yet... There have also been a bunch of people who have said that Apple tech support was really not helpful, and I don't really want to sit on the phone waiting to talk to a tech who probably knows less than I do. So I would appreciate any insight you guys might have cause this is going to drive me nuts. I mean this is a great feature, but it should work or they should fix it darn fast!
(cross posted in Mac Fixit Forums)
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM
