Connect aiport extreme to seagate freeagent go

I am trying to connect my seagate free agent go to airport extreme to make a wireless iDisc and it is not viewable. I am running a 64bit Window 7 OS. Will this work?

The drive must be formatted in MS DOS FAT32 or Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
It is often necessary to use a powered USB hub when connecting a hard drive to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme....even if the hard drive has its own power supply.

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How do I connect airport extreme to seagate hard drive using windows

How do I connect airport extreme to seagate hard drive using windows?

First the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) cannot share out an external HDD attached to its USB port unless it is formatted in either HFS+ or FAT16/32. It will not work if the HDD is formatted in either NTFS or ExFAT.
If the HDD is formatted properly, when you access the AEBS with the AirPort Utility, does the HDD show up properly on the Disks tab of the utility?
If it does, then you would access the HDD as any other network share, using the following format: //servername/sharename. In the case of the AirPort Disk (a HDD attached to the USB port of either an Extreme or Time Capsule), the "servername" would be the Extreme's Base Station Name, and the "sharename" would be the volumename of the HDD.

Connecting aiport extreme and airport express via ethernet cable ?

Is it possible to connect an airport extreme to an airport express via ethernet cable, I ask because I want to expand the range of my wifi network to the basement of my house, the floors are really thick concrete so I installed some ethernet cable runs, I hope somebody can help me, thank you.

+How do I do it ? Do I connect the modem to the airport extreme and then run the ethernet cable from one of the extreme's ethernet ports to the express ethernet on the basememt and a second cable from another of the extreme's ethernet connectors to the express on the second floor+
Yes, this is exactly correct.
To configure each AirPort Express (AX)
Open AirPort Utility, click Manual Setup
Click the Base Station tab below the icons to name your device, assign a device password and adjust time zone settings. Give each Express a separate name so you can identify then easily.
Click the Wireless tab
Wireless Mode...Create a Wireless Network
Wireless Network Name...Exact same name as your AirPort Extreme network
Radio Mode 802.11n (802.11b/g compatible) if you want to use 2.4 GHz
Channel...Automatic
Wireless Security...Exact same setting as your AirPort Extreme network
Wireless Password....Exact same setting as your AirPort Extreme network
Click the Internet icon
Change the Connection Sharing setting at the bottom to "Off (Bridge Mode)"
Click Update at the lower right and the AirPort Express will restart in 20-30 seconds
I think it is easier to configure each AirPort Express with AirPort Utility by temporarily connecting it to your computer with a short ethernet cable. Once you have saved the configuration, you can move the Express to the location that you need.
Please post back on your progress.

Connecting Aiport Extreme to a router

Hi,
I already have a wireless router, that is also a 4 port switch. I never use its wireless features. Can I cable the Extreme base station to it my existing router, but still use my router as my broadband connection?
Best wishes
Michael

Yes

Aiport extreme dual band base station not connecting to the internet...

I just bought the aiport extreme the other day, i'm having a lot of trouble connecting to the net.
my setup:
ADSL 2+ modem connected to the airport which than connects to my MBP.
I have no problem connecting to the internet when i hook up my MBP to the dsl modem, but for some reason the aiport is not letting me trough saying that, today it managed to do a software update... how i dont know could this be a DNS problem? and how do i fix it?
Many thanks!!!

Can you tell us whether your "modem" is a simple device with only one ethernet port or is it a "gateway", which is a combination modem/router with 3-4 ethernet ports?

Can´t see 2 external HD´s connected to Aiport Extreme

I can´t seem to find/see my two external HD´s inside Final Cut Pro X.
I have my two G-Drive HD´s hooked up via a USB-hub to my Aiport Extreme and therefore running wirelessly from my Macbook Pro. It all works just fine by having referenced files with Aperture this way...
Must the external HD be physically connected to the Macbook Pro to be able for it to see inside Final Cut Pro X?
The format seems to be say "AppleShare" when I look on the Info on each drive.
I am running out of storage space and also for the future would like to use an external for saving my projects and event files.

Let's double-check your AEBSn's settings...
AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) - File Sharing Setup
Either connect to the AEBSn's wireless network or temporarily connect your computer directly (using an Ethernet cable) to one of the LAN ports of the AEBSn, and then, using the AirPort Utility in Manual Mode, check these settings:
Disks - File Sharing
o Secure Shared Disks: <With disk password | With base station password | With accounts >
(Note: Choose "With a disk password," or "With base station password" if you want to secure the shared disk with a password, or choose "With accounts" if you want to secure the disk using accounts.
If you choose to use accounts, click Configure Accounts, click the Add "+" button, and then enter a name and password for each user that will access the disk.)
o Guest Access: <Not allowed | Read only | Read and write>
o Share disks over Ethernet WAN port: (unchecked)
(Note: Select the "Share disks over Ethernet WAN port" checkbox if you want to provide remote access to the disk over the WAN port.)
o Advertise disks globally using Bonjour: (unchecked)
o Workgroup: <Windows workgroup name>
o WINS server: <WINS server IP address>

Sharing a Seagate FreeAgent Pro 4109

Airport Extreme
We have recently purchase an Airport Extreme to provide Wireless networking and also an attached USB drive
My partner as Apple iBook G4 running Tiger OS, am running Windows XP SP 3 Intel Celeron (DHCP enables, IP 192.168.1.6 GW 192.168.1.1 mask 255.255.255
We can both connect to the wireless LAN and the Internet without difficulty but we can not see the attached drive
The drive has been my directly attached USB storage device for some time
It is a Seagate FreeAgent Pro 4109 running its own backup utility. It therefore as all my backups on it as well some additional info that will not fit onto my hard drive therefore I do not want to do anything that may cause me to loose my data
We have configured the Airport Extreme as follows
Internet
IP Address 192.168.1.4
mask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1.
DNS 192.168.1.1.
Connection sharing Off (Bridge Mode)
Disk
In the Disk the pane shows “931.5 GB - Seagate FreeAgent Pro 4109” (this is non editable)
File sharing tab
File Sharing ticked
Secured shared disks = with a disk password
password set
Guest not allowed
Workgroup set as the same Workgroup as my PC (Workgroup)
No WINS server is configured
We have read hours of articles on the Internet. My partner has been looking for a shared option within her sidebar as this has been referred to but can not see it, she can not see the drive at all
I have added 192.168.1.1 (automatically added) and 10.0.1.1 (I added after reading articles) into my Norton firewall (full trust) and have turned off the Windows firewall.
I am running Bonjour for Windows (although I am unsure how I confirm this is always running but it is within the browser button bar).
I try to find the drive on Windows I use Explorer and use “tools” and “Map network drive” and select \\192.168.1.4\Seagate FreeAgent Pro 4109. It attempts to find this but says the network path can not be found
I have read articles that seem to indicate that we must reformat the dive for MAC OS extended for it to work but I am worried that I will loose my data and the back up untilities
Can you help?

Thanks very much for the reply, I thought that might be the case. I guess that would mean lossing all my data on the drive? More important to me is the backup utility. I think that has a host element on the drive but I am not certain
Thnaks again for the info
Steve

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500GB Disconnects Unexpectedly during Time Machine backups

I have a 20" 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Early 2008) iMac with 4GB Ram. A few days ago I finally took the time to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks. I have 3 Seagate external drives connected to the iMac (2 connected directly and one through a powered hub - all via USB). I use one of the external drives, a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex named TARDIS for my Time Machine backups. This has been running fine for quite a while. After the upgrade to Mavericks I started seeing it disconnect unexpectedly. There were no power fluctuations, the cord was not bumped, and this had never happened prior to the upgrade.
I searched these boards and found several people having issues with drives disconnecting after upgrading and followed suggestions regarding resetting the pram which I did to no effect, a suggestion to delete the com.apple.TimeMachine.plist preferences file which I did, also to no effect. Finally, knowing that I didn't have anything irreplaceable on the existing Time Machine backups, I re-formatted the drive - this also had no effect. Through this process I discovereed that the disconnects were always happening while Time Machine was trying to run a backup. It would get to about 20 megabytes backed up and then just sit there until it gave me the drive was improperly disconnected message.
I was getting really frustrated at this point. I read something somewhere about issues with the main drive causing errors with Time Machine (not sure the details at this point) and so I did a Verify Disk on my internal system drive. It did find some issues so I followed the instructions to repair them which worked fine. I also ran the verify on the Time Machine drive which did not discover any issues.
I reformatted the drive again, giving it a different name (Backup). I set up Time Machine again to backup to the newly named drive. It was backing up properly. I thought I had finally gotten it into a working state. I thought maybe there was a trace of the old drive name somewhere that was causing the issue. The backup finished successfully. All was good. Until the next time Time Machine started to run when it again stalled before disconnecting.
I reformatted the drive one more time, giving it yet another new name (Delorean) and have not set up Time Machine. If I don't run Time Machine, the drive does not suffer issues with disconnecting. I have tried copying a large file to the drive to see if some I/O would trigger a disconnect and I had no problems. I plan to run a few more tests like this but so far it has been connected for more than 24 hours and has not disconnected itself. This to me suggests it is something to do with Time Machine running under Mavericks. I don't have another Mac that I can try running Time Machine on to verify that this is an issue caused by Mavericks but that seems to be the case.
Any ideas?

its a dying SATA bridge card, extremely common issue.
read all about it here:
Your dead external hard drive is likely fine! Great hope for your 'faulty' external HD
I really wish people would learn about the A #1 issue that affects external HD, its a 50 cent part that makes it seem their ext. HD has failed / failing.
Thousands of people every day experience what at first seems that their external USB or Thunderbolt HD, either 2.5" portable or 3.5" desktop model is dying, is dead, or all hope is lost for it. Good news is that you have roughly a greater than 50-60% chance that your external hard drive is perfectly fine!
The great news at the end of the tunnel of an apparently failed or failing external hard drive.
When checked on another computer, and with no need for spending money on data extraction expertise or software, the very likely case is that your external USB or thunderbolt HD is in fact fine, and merely the card interface, or SATA bridge card has failed or is failing. Keeping a HD dock around handy, or cheaper still a $20 hard drive enclosure or a SATA to USB connector can be a real life saver in getting your drive back to use, when the drive itself is fine, and merely its interface card has gone bad.
The SATA bridge card inside a USB external HD has a very high failure rate in general
Typical SATA bridge cards as seen inside a 3.5" external HD with power input (#1), and 2.5" SATA cards (#3, #4, #5)
What are the realistic odds your HD is perfectly fine?
There are no hard facts whatsoever, especially since so many people discard their assumed “dead/faulty” hard drives, but a good educated conclusion from years of examining and seeing this issue is that for hard drives made since 2010, and not dropped or generally abused, is that a minimum of 50% conservatively are perfectly fine! I personally estimate however that it likely approaches 60%+.
Considering how many external hard drives ‘fail’ (rather the SATA bridge more than half the time) each day, that is a very high number of perfectly fine HD that are tossed!
This is especially common with 3.5” desktop HD that are connected 24/7 with power and see a lot of data transfer. People wrongly conclude that “X” mfg. just made a defective drive, when in fact their 3.5” drives inside the plastic enclosure is 100% fine. I have personally seen well over 200 of these dead SATA cards and additionally seen 3 fail within a one hour span of doing a large data copies.
One of the very reason pros use bare HD as inserted into HD docks is not just the saving of space and the need for endless USB cables, but the elimination of the need for this high failure-rate part.
While the shapes and sizes vary somewhat on SATA bridge cards, they all serve the same purpose and have likewise failure rates
What exactly is the SATA bridge card in your external HD?
In the middle to late of 2009, most all external hard drives both in 2.5” and 3.5” reached the shelves in SATA III. These small SATA cards or "bridges" are used to translate between the hard drives’ interfaces and the enclosures' external ports (USB, Thunderbolt, Firewire). Additionally these small bridges not only transfer power but also of course the data. Unfortunately these SATA bridge cards have a very high failure rate as they are burdened with moving power (in 2.5" HD) and of course data.
Literally, these little unreliable and fragile cards are the power conduits and of course the nervous system for all external HD data transfer.
SATA card as found inside a typical USB external hard drive
The assumption that the hard drive is bad when its not!
Countless 1000s of good external hard drives are thrown away each year because the owner thought the HD was bad when it fact it was the SATA bridge card which had failed. This card is removed in a matter of mere second once an external USB HD is cracked open from its plastic casing to reveal the bare HD and the attached SATA card which attaches between the HD and the USB cable.
To complicate this problem, even many computer professionals do not know that there is a very easy solution to the “failing or dead HD” issue since the hard drive itself is very likely just fine. Its astonishing that so many highly educated computer repair persons are unaware of this high-failure part, but this is mostly due to the fact that they do not juggle 100s of hard drives and know that of the iceberg that is a “external hard drive failure”, the mostly unseen majority are not a HD failure at all, but a bridge card failure.
To add to this great misunderstanding is the fact that people assume that "likewise symptoms seen on an external HD are the same as seen on an internal HD, therefore also the external HD must be bad". This is a compositional fallacy of logic. Since internal HD do not have a SATA bridge interface, to conclude similar symptoms "indicate the same failure" is misplaced and incorrect.
This is all not to say that HD do not fail, they do indeed, and I have seen many 100s of dead and failing hard drives. Hard drives even under ideal conditions have a life expectancy of around 4-8 years due to ferromagnetic depolarization from entropy and the main reason being mechanical failure. But of the mountain of symptoms that are seen as “hard drive failures” in comments, posts, and hearsay, half or more of these are not a HD failure at all.
What makes up an external USB HD or Thunderbolt HD?
While modern external HD boxes vary in shape and size somewhat, they're the same inside on almost 100% of them.
Four parts essentially:
1. Your 2.5” or 3.5” hard drive.
2. The plastic or metal box it rests in.
3. The USB cable and also (in the case of the 3.5” external) the power cable and block.
4. The SATA bridge card.
Clear USB HD in its case, with green SATA card at top,...not shown is the USB cable
The USB cables are almost entirely unheard of today to fail, and the box enclosure cannot fail, leaving the good HD you have taken care of and the 50 cent part which juggles both power and data to and from the HD itself, that being the SATA card.
What drives will work for this go-around fix?
Almost any drive 2010 and later, all 3.5” HD mid-2010 and on, and almost all USB 2.5” external hard drives, including firewire, and thunderbolt enclosure encased conventional platter hard drives.
The rare exception is a slimline 7mm thick "slim" external HD in both Toshiba and WD in certain models where the SATA bridge has been incorporated into the HD to save money and production costs.
Much older drives 2009 and earlier will not work for this faulty part work around.

IMac G5 won't boot from an external Seagate Freeagent FireWire drive

Hi guys,
So, the internal drive on my sister's iMac G5 finally died a few days ago. On my advice, she stopped in to Best Buy and bought a Seagate Freeagent Xtreme 1tb external drive (with FireWire). I had her connect the Seagate to her MacBook (in Windows Boot Camp mode) and use the Seagate Manager to disable the drive's power-saving mode. I then talked her through using her OS X Leopard DVD to (re)partition the Seagate (using the Apple Partition Map scheme) and format it as Mac OS Extended Journaled, and Leopard installed just fine on the external drive (from the G5, via USB).
However, now when she tried to boot from the external over FireWire (by holding down "Option" on power-on), it plays dead (no lights), and doesn't show as a viable boot device. When plugged into the laptop (also over firewire) it shows up just fine on the desktop. We would use USB to boot, but her G5 doesn't support booting over USB.
What am I missing here? We've been working on this for three days, and have gotten so freakin' close to having her iMac up and running again, but the cursed Seagate drive simply refuses to "kick in" at bootup and work on the G5!
Any ideas would be awesome,
Huxley

Honestly, that's exactly what I would do if I had hands-on access to the iMac, but such a swap is a bit beyond my sister's skill-set.
We never did figure out what the issue was, so I had my sister return the drive and order one from MacSales.com (aka Other World Computing) - if anyone will have a Mac-friendly drive, it's those folks!
Huxley

Seagate FreeAgent External Hard Drive & Time Machine

I have a 1 TB Seagate FreeAgent Go external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups. However, I get one or two backups on it and it suddenly becomes "Read only" and won't allow Time Machine to write to it. My user name is listed as having read/write permissions. I go into Disk Utility and Verfy the disk. It comes back saying it needs to be repaird, so I click Repair Disk and then after several minutes of repairing it comes back with an error that the disk can't be repaired and that I should backup the contents and reformat.
I have reformatted it a couple times and each time this happens once I attempt to use it for Time Machine again. At times it won't even mount.
Is this a bad drive and I should contact Seagate for replacement (it is only a couple months old) or is it something I'm doing/not doing? Is it Lion (though it was kind of flaky even when I was running Snow Leopard)?
I have a MBP (early 2011) running Lion with 8 GB RAM, 1 TB internal HD.

Now I have that sinking feeling.
It is plugged directly into the MBP. No power supply as it is a "portable" HD so it's powered from USB.
My sinking feeling is coming from the fact that since day one of owning this MBP (I got it in March 2011) the built in card reader has had problems. When I put a card in, it mouts and reads fine, but if I reach around and move the MBP holding onto the bottom of the case near the card reader slots (the natural place to grab it to pick it up) I get a message that I've ejected the car improperly even though the card is still seated and hasn't move. This leads me to believe that there is some kind of problem with the internal connections to the motherboard. Now with this added symptom of the disk not mounting I'm more concerned about motherboard trouble. Thankfully I have Apple Care.
But, the other thing is, when I connect the EHD and it doesn't mount/is not recognized by Time Machine, it does show up in Disk Utility as being there--indicating it connects fine as far as cabling etc--but it won't mount from Disk Utility, and I can't do disk repair. The only thing I can do is reformat it and then it will work for a while before going back through the whole won't mount, have to format procedure again. So I'm really stumped since there seems to be no clear indication if the problem is related to the card reader symptom or if it is a bad drive.

Z77A-GD65 USB3 port with Seagate Freeagent go desk issues

I have a Z77A-GD65 motherboard, with an intel i5 Ivy Bridge 3570k processor. Kingwin LZP-550 PSU and have attached via USB3 (using a USB3 cable of course) a seagate Free Agent Go Desk 2TB external hard drive.
On my old system the drive when the system is on, is running just spins down when its not in use.. power light stays on for the drive all the time. That was also a USB3 system, just another USB3 chipset.
On this motherboard, sometimes the drive when the system is powered up doesn't turn on and I have to unplug the USB cable and replug it in, after that the drive power LED comes on and spins up.
Any reason why this motherboard is acting like this? The drive should come on with the system like it did on my old system.
Anything I can do to fix this or change the USB ports behavior? It's almost like its not telling the device it's on.

Quote from: xmad on 25-August-12, 00:30:38
Attached is the latest beta bios for your board.(MSI recommended this)
>>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<<
MSI tried to duplicate the problem but couldn't does this testing procedue seem right to you?
1.   Install System driver and reset
2.   Connect USB HDD to USB 3.0 port. The device can be recognized.
3.   Reboot the system
4.   Check Computer and still can find the USB HDD
5.   Power off the system
6.   Power on and check Computer.
Z77A-GD65
BIOS: E7751IMS.A50
WIN7 64 bit
USB 3.0 driver: 1.0.4.225
Seagate FreeAgent Goflex STAA1500301 1.5TB
I installed that BIOS and still have the issue, one easy way to reporduce this is to power up the system into windows 7 x64, sleep the computer in (sleep mode in bios is set to S3) when you wake it, the USB3 drives are offline

Setting up Aiport Extreme for wireless hard drive access

I recently bought an Aiport Extreme Base Station, but I am struggling to set it up.
I want to use the Extreme to access my external hard drive (a Western Digital) wirelessly. I also have an Airport Express, which I currently use to extend my wirless network, and to connect to my speakers with AirTunes. My goal is to access and play my music library (contained on my external hard drive) without wiring my macbook to any external devices.
I already have an adequate wireless network in my home (my wireless router is a 2Wire 3800HGV-B, provided by AT&T).
So, I've already tried to set up the Extreme and failed. Rather than describe what I've tried already, let me tell you what I want, ideally:
1. Access my hard drive wirelessly
2. Access the internet and my hard drive at the same time (I assume this means that I need my Extreme to join my existing wireless network rather than create a new network, since i don't think I can be on two wireless networks at once)
3. Keep my Airport Extreme in a separate room from my 2Wire Gateway (this is preferred but not essential -- if they absolutely need to be connected with an ethernet cable for some reason, I can do that)
Can anyone help me through the setup process? In case you haven't noticed, I don't really know what I'm talking about, so step-by-step instructions would be much appreciated. Thanks!

nononoah, Welcome to the discussion area!
The AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) will not wirelessly join the wireless network provided by the 2Wire.
You will need to either connect the AEBS to the 2Wire via Ethernet or replace the 2Wire with the AEBS.

Seagate FreeAgent problems

I have a FreeAgent 750 that has modules for eSata, FW400 and USB 2.0.
Under Mac OS X 10.4 they all worked great. Now with Leopard the USB and FW400 still work but when I try to use eSata the drive gives an error and becomes unusable.
I read some of the posts that indicated some external drives were causing problems with Time Machine and such, did the stuff they mentioned to fix problems (repartition the drive, make sure it's using a GUID map, etc..) but the problem persists.
I booted off my 10.4 backup drive and confirmed the drive still works good there with esata.
I have another eSata drive that works great under Leopard so I'm pretty sure my drivers and esata card are good.
I read that the recent iMac update that apple pushed out did a firmware update to Seagate drives. I'm wondering if the FreeAgent drives are suffering a similar problem?
Has anyone gotten a FA drive working under Leopard using the esata module?
Bill

The Seagate FreeAgent Pro line of external hard drives seem to have a lot of problems with their eSATA interface. Seagate has (non-publicly) released a firmware update for the drives, but even after applying the update, many people can't use the eSATA connection reliably.
A link to the firmware update is on my blog entry on this topic here:
http://blog.noegruts.com/2007/12/seagate-freeagent-pro-esata-problems.html
Hope that's of some help...

AEBS and SeaGate FreeAgent

Hi All,
I have an Airport Extreme FW 7.4.2. I was trying to attach a SeaGate FreeAgent 1.5 TB external drive to the thing. First I had two partitions and it only saw one. (Amber light) SO I repartitioned it to only one large partition and now I get nothing but amber light and "disk needs repair. It all work fine attached to the imac. What gives?
-mark

How is the drive formatted? For best performance, you will want it formatted HFS+.

G5 wont recognize Seagate Freeagent through eSata

I just purchased a 750gb Seagate Freeagent HD, (model ST307504FPA1E3-RK), it has USB 2.0, Firewire 400, and most importantly a eSata connection.
I live in NYC, and could only find one PCI-X Sata card in stock at Tekserve. Nothing at BHPhoto, JR Computer World, Comp Usa...
It is a Lacie Sata II 3Gb/s PCI-X Card 4E
I installed this card and its driver on my G5, (Apple System Profiler recognizes the card), and plugged the Seagate into the the eSata port on the card and the G5 does not recognize the drive.
It is recognized with the USB 2.0, and I reformatted it to OSX Extended, hoping that maybe now it might be seen through the esata interface.
No such luck.
I don't know whether this card is compatible with the drive or not. I can't seem to find any info one way or another, as to how to hook up the Seagate freeagent to my G5.
Can anyone please advise me?

I called Lacie tech support this morning, and they had me install the latest driver from their site, (as opposed to the driver that came on the disc with the card), and Voila, the Seagate appeared on my desktop!
So, I am good to go.

Connect aiport extreme to seagate freeagent go

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