1TB LaCie ETHERNET BIG DISK U , doe not work with time machine!

as many have already found out this huge drive is a bookend unless apple make a fix! Soon.

I have the same ethernet drive, and I was able to get it to work using the method outlined in this topic http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1199783&tstart=0. Note that you can only access the backed up files by browsing other time machine disks, but it works.
By the way, is your ethernet disk as horribly slow as mine is? I max out at about 10 megabytes per second on a good day resulting transfers being no faster than to my 100 megabit per sec connection to my iMac G4.

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