Airport Extreme 7.3.1 - Airdisks now cause MASSIVE Console spam!

Hi,
A while back someone had posted a problem. It's been archived so I've reposted it....and will reply with a solution that worked for me.
Upon installation of 7.3.1 this evening, airdisks now completely pillage my poor system log - it's completely unusable due to ridiculous spam from the "new & improved" airdisk system. Disk has been erased and repartitioned w/ GUID structure. None of these ever happened before this update.
AEBSn (non-Gbit) + Seagate Freeagent Desktop 250GB - w/ 2 letter wireless site name, 2 letter drive name, yields THIS:
Mar 20 01:46:22 SRMBP kernel[0]: Bad Error - mbuftagallocate returned an error 22
Mar 20 01:46:22 SRMBP kernel[0]: Error in processing.....letting packet Through!
my log is positively BLOATED with these - both occurring 2-3 times/second during Airdisk writes... No errors during reads.
and THIS:
Mar 20 01:48:01 SRMBP Unknown15: Client application bug: DNSServiceResolve(DN.adisk.tcp.local.) active for over two minutes. This places considerable burden on the network.
...this happens often as well.
just for fun, a few of these:
Mar 20 01:24:24 SRMBP kernel[0]: Length of address is greater than what will fit in info structure
Mar 20 01:24:54: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Mar 20 01:25:00 SRMBP 0x0-0xb00b.com.apple.finder180: AFPFSMapIDName afpfsMapIDNameFSCTL returned -1, errno: 2
Mar 20 01:35:20: --- last message repeated 5 times ---
sadly, this too is also common.
Any thoughts? I'm out of my league on this one, and even google is speechless. Not good!
~off to test TM through wife's Blackbook, will report back.
~O'Doyle

I had the same problem with a bloated log. Same error and everything. I did a little messing around and found it was a program called Covenant Eyes. As soon as I removed it the logs started to look normal and the speed improved dramatically....
I can live without Covenant Eyes. It's pretty much worthless. It can be defeated using a program called CleanSweep.
If you are getting these weird error messages and have Covenant Eyes installed...that's your problem.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3728
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So I was very obsessed by the fact that Windows Vista could actually access the shared HD with Bonjour and with a lot of testing I found this : let's say my macbook pro was off, if I would access the HD with Vista and then open up the MacBook Pro, then there would be no problem.
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I ask because I'm having what sounds like the exact same issue.
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Please check out this excellent article by iFelix on sharing files between PCs & Macs: Sharing files between a Windows XP PC and a Mac running OS 10.4.x

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I've changed the channels (channel 13 to 8, 10 or ...), with no succes. I've sought a lot on the internet, this discussions board include, about my problem but I didn't find any equal issue.
Is it possible that the Airport Extreme isn't fully compatible with PC's like Apple says or am I an isolated issue, because there are people where everything just works fine...?
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I figured out how to format my hard drive from NFTS to FAT32 by Googling that question and using a free download. Still can't see the hard drive yet BUT
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So I'm still going to keep working on getting my PC to recognize the HD. The Airport Utility shows it on the disk tab so I know that it's good to go on the the Airport Extreme side of things. Now if I can just get Windows to see it.
Slow progress is better then no progress.
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1) The TC upstairs is connected to the comcast modem and is the main 'router' in my network. In addition, I'm using the "create wireless network" option on this router to set up both a 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz wireless environment.
2) The AEBS downstairs on the opposite end of the house is connected by ethernet - whole house is wired so I'm feeding from the TC upstairs through a switch in the disti box down to an outlet where I have the AEBS. The cat-5 cable is connected to a LAN port on the back of the AEBS.
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