Backup with Timemachine on external LaCie drive

Hi,
Time Machine doesn´t recognice the external 500 GB LaCie drive. It only shows another external firewire drive I have not enough space on(80 GB). But otherwise I can see that drive and also can read on write on it. So why does time machine not see ths drive?

Your LaCie FireWire, USB, or eSATA drive should work fine with Time Machine if prepared properly.
Here are a few things to take into consideration:
Sometimes the user may not have partitioned and formatted their drive correctly; the drive should be partitioned using Apple Partition Scheme or GUID Partition Scheme, but not Master Boot Record. These are all partitioning options within Apple Disk Utility, the version that is part of both Leopard as well as Tiger. Earlier versions of Apple Disk Utility did not support all these partitioning options. Users should make sure that the current version of the Apple Disk Utility is used to partition their drive. Note well: GUID partition scheme is only useful for Intel based Macs. After partitioning, then the user should make sure the disk is formatted as Mac OS Extended. This is the best format to use for all Mac related functionality, especially backups
At the last minute, Apple removed the ability to backup to a network share. This limitation did not exist in the developer versions released before October 29. It is reported that Apple removed this capability since there were stability issues. Backing up to network shares is highly desired, but should be bullet-proof before relying on this method of backing up.
Users should avoid special characters in volume and folder names when setting up their backup drive. Users should limit their names to A-Za-z0-9 characters. Use of other characters as well as spaces could result in problems. I expect that Apple may come up with a technote to clarify what characters should be used.
The above tips are suggestions for best use of Time Machine with LaCie drives.
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