Firmware 7.6 Problems With Disk Mount

I downgraded my Time Capsule firmware from 7.6 to 7.5.2, as it was repeatedly dropping my (wired ethernet) mount of its disk and reconnecting every 150 seconds or so. 7.5.2 seems to have fixed it.
This sort of thing was seen in the system log:
Nov 15 00:20:03 Shackleton kernel[0]: Primary Reconnect succeeded /Volumes/Vilya
Nov 15 00:22:32 Shackleton KernelEventAgent[36]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
Nov 15 00:22:32 Shackleton KernelEventAgent[36]: tid 00000000 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Vilya', from 'afp_0V1wtE1EoQs100mTNI0Pyetl-1.2d000003', not responding
Nov 15 00:22:32 Shackleton KernelEventAgent[36]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
Nov 15 00:22:32 Shackleton KernelEventAgent[36]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
Nov 15 00:22:33 Shackleton kernel[0]: Primary Reconnect succeeded /Volumes/Vilya

Installed the recently released 7.6.1 firmware, and it exhibits the same problem. Reverted to 7.5.2 again, and the problem is gone. Is anyone from Apple reading this?

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Max:
Sorry I misunderstood you. Actually you don't move
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procedures. Since I have not had to use it I can't
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happy house cleaning.
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