Lacie Ethernet Drive Mini & AP-Extreme

My LACIE EDMini has been funxtioning fine connected to the Airport Extreme now for many months.
Suddenly The Macbook Pro is unable to connect to the drive through the Extreme, If I remove the EdMini from the Airport Extreme ethernet connection and connect the EdMini to the Macbook via USB, then all is well.
I have no 'additional" equipment with which to test the Airport's Ethernet connection.
Is there another way I can tell which item is at fault, the Airport Extreme or the Lacie Ethernet Drive Mini ??
Thanks ...

solved by Lacie asndf returned to them .. Ethernet problem in the hard drive

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The very small newspaper I work for just recently upgraded their equipment. In the department I am in we received two dual core mac minis, and we are wanting to use a lacie ethernet disk mini as our "server". Basically we just need a place to store shared files so that we can both access them and they won't take up space on either one of our computers. Everything I've read said that it should work as a "dumping ground" of sorts, and we've even heard reports of other small newspapers using the same setup. We also received an Airport Extreme to use as well.
We can get the disk mini to work with either of the computers individually, but we can't get it to work through the router or the Airport so that we can both access it. So far we've tried plugging it directly into the router and using the Airport to send the signal, plugging it directly into the router and plugging our computers into the router as well, plugging it directly into the Airport, and plugging it directly into one of the computers then trying to remotely access it with the other one. We've been able to access the internet and our printer as well as each other's computer with each of these options, but it will not recognize the disk mini.
We've been working on this a lot longer than we should have, and we've run out of options. We are stuck using the old equipment (two really old Power Macs) until we figure out the problem. Any suggestions on what we might be doing wrong?

Hi. I don't have any experience with this LaCie product, but I see from their support pages there's specific software to configure the drive for network access.
http://www.lacie.com/support/drivers/driver.htm?id=10048
Just a guess.
PowerBook G4 (15 FW800); 17 iMac G5; Mac mini 1.42 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Lacie ethernet disk mini as a network backup

I am not a real techie. I have an airport extreme network with an airport express to extend the reception range in the house. I bought a Lacie ethernet disk mini drive. I hooked it up via ethernet cable to the airport express and use it as a wireless backup for the 3 laptops in our family. I put it in the startup for all the laptops so that it shows right up on the desktop when the computer boots. I have been using it about a year or so and it works well. It can be a little slow when I try and back up my sons 47 gigs of photos. I do not know if I even have it hooked up correctly or the best way. Any suggestions? Anyone with similar setups?

I may not be the expert but it seems to work. I manually connected to the drive by using the "GO" menu, "Connect to Server", hit the "Browse" button, select "Network", then select the drive, authenticate with password, etc. and it should show up on your desketop.
Next open system preferences, go to accounts, then Login items. Either drag the icon for the drive into the box, or hit the plus box, find the icon and select it. I have done this on the three laptops and 3 desk tops at our home. It works fine. When you start up the computer it automatically shows up on the desktop. I use it to back up files, mostly music and photos. It can be a very slow back up. I think that is more the problem of "backup". I find that I have to break the backup packages into lots of smaller packages, instead of one hugh folder like Home.
I am a little compulsive about backing these things up. I do not know what amount of data you have. I also use mediamax.com. THey give you 25 gigs of free backup space. It is slow and prone to errors but eventually I got most of my stuff on there also.
I am still looking if someone more techie than I knows if the way I am using my network drive it the best way...
steve
That's exactly what I want to do. I don't like having
to manually connect to the server every time I
startup the computer.
Can you tell me how to do it? What did you put in
"startup" and where is "startup"? Thanks!

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Hello -
I recently bought a Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini - Home Edition. I have it all set up on my home network when all of a sudden my Netgear router bites the big one.
I am looking into getting the Airport Express for its wireless streaming capabilities. My question is:
- Can I hook my cable modem through the USB port on the Airport Express for internet use? If so, can I hook my Disk Mini into the Ethernet port on the Airport Extreme to access my drive? If not, I spose I can buy a regular linksys switch to split the lines?

1. No, the USB port on the AirPort Express is solely for printer usage.
2. With the latest AirPort Expresses you should be able to access your hard drive via ethernet, but since there is only one port you will have to have another wireless router to broadcast your internet. And you can't just have a router to split the port on the Express, it either runs in WAN mode (which is for a cable or dsl modem) or LAN mode (for accessing your hard drive). It can't run in both at the same time.
You could buy a cheap Linksys router but I can't guarantee how well the Express will work with extending the wireless network. It really sounds like you need to get the AirPort Extreme Base Station.

LaCie Ethernet Disk mini compatibility

Hello,
I have a couple of Macs in the family, and I recently bought a LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini to use a NAS drive for my house. I set it up on one of the PC's in my house, now when I try and connect to it from my iMac, MacBook and Mac Mini I get an error message saying that I don't have permission to access this drive.
Does anyone know how to solve this or have had the same problem?
Thanks in advance.

Hi
I had the same issue with ethernet mini. After contacting Lacie support they suggested a reset of the drive. This worked for a while but then would fail again. In the end I sold the drive!
Sorry that's not that helpful but Lacie didn't have any answers either

Connecting a lacie ethernet drive

just wondering who has connected a lacie ethernet drive to there snow basestation and how well it worked...
I want was thinking of upgrading to the new basestation for this feature but with a USB drive but i am in the market for a drive anyway so if i can go withouth the new basestation id be happy
im planning on using it as my directory for my itunes media

Yeah, I too worked out a cheaper solution with much, much, much, much better performance. I have an Apple Airport Extreme (last incarnation, not new one), used just as the router. I have a Neatgear gigabit switch, connected to all the "wired" Mac's in the house, and one of the new Ethernet Gigabite Hard Drives connected to that same router. I have true gigabit speeds to the hard drive (NAS) and to the computers. It's much faster than the 10/100 offered from Apple by USB'ing a hard drive, and yes, if you have wireless it will obviously be slower. I essentially saved $300.00, and bought Aperture!

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I recently purchased a LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini. I purchased it to use with .Mac backup at the house. I have an Airport network. I reformatted the drive to Mac OS X extended using Disk Utility and it seems to be working perfectly. I have been able to successfully back up via USB and Ethernet. In order to mount the drive I have to connect using command + k and then type in the assigned static ip address. It then mounts the drive on the desktop.
I then experimented with automounting the drive at login using an application called AutomountMaker. It writes a short executable script and then I added the script at login. This works also.
I would like to take this a little further and have the drive mounted only when I connect to a specific wireless network, and then dismount when not connected to that network. I am not sure how to do this. I have read numerous articles and googled the heck out of this topic with no avail. I came across the application NetInfo Manager, but I'm not sure if this is what I should be using or not. Above all, I don't know how to use Netinfo Manager.
Could someone please point me in the right direction or provide me with some suggestions? I do not know how to write applescripts nor do I know if applescripts are what I need. I am at a loss, but I would think that people have encountered this question before.
Thanks to any that can help.
LM

I would love to know the exact same thing. I just received the same drive, and it seems wierd that you can't just add the Volume to the Login items and have it connect for you are log in, I would have expected to be able to do this.
Of course this is totally a fault with OS X not the lacie drive itself.

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I'm considering buying a "LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition" http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10994 . The specs for this device says that it has iTunes Server support.
Can I use this to stream content to my Apple TV without my computer being on. Thanks...

I have an Lacie Ethernet gigabit mini disk 500GB. Software 1.1.2.1 and Apple TV.
In apple Tv appears the itunes library shared EDmini (the lacie ethernet disk) but when a i try to connect it, apple tv tell me to introduce the passcode into the ITUNES....
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I want to buy a NAS server to both back up my macs and share music and iphoto files. I have come accross the LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini. It got awfull reviews on CNet but ok reviews on Tom's hardware guide. Has aonyone on the forum got experience with setting it up? I would hook it to a switch which is connected to my aiport express so that all macs can access it remotely. thanks for any input.
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I have found the Ether Disk Mini to be reliable and quiet; I guess my only complaint is that the data transfer is slow. By default the disk is formated FAT32, which has some limitations if you are an all Mac network. It gets slightly better transfer rates when formated EXT3, which is an option.
Overall I would say its OK, or par with Tom's Hardware review.

LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Gigabit/USB not recognized by Leopard

I have successfully setup the disk on USB using OS X Tiger 10.4.10 but I cannot get the Network Preferences Pane to recognise the disk as an ethernet device under OS X Leopard 10.5 during initial installation and configuration. Under Leopard the disk seems to appear as a modem device (telephone icon instead of ethernet <---> icon).
I am running a PowerBook G4 1.25Ghz with 2Gb RAM. Before I fully commit to Leopard I am running Tiger on the PowerBook's internal hard drive and I have Leopard running from a partition on a triple interface (Firewire 800/400USB2) 250Mb Lacie external drive (connected using FW800).
Under Leopard's System Profiler, the ethernet mini disk appears (under network>locations) with the following info:
Ethernet Disk mini:
Type: PPP
IPv4:
Configuration Method: PPP
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
Proxies:
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
PPP:
ACSP Enabled: No
Display Terminal Window: No
Redial Count: 1
Redial Enabled: Yes
Redial Interval: 5
Use Terminal Script: No
Dial On Demand: No
Disconnect On Fast User Switch: Yes
Disconnect On Idle: Yes
Disconnect On Idle Time: 600
Disconnect On Logout: Yes
Disconnect On Sleep: Yes
Idle Reminder: No
Idle Reminder Time: 1800
IPCP Compression VJ: Yes
LCP Echo Enabled: Yes
LCP Echo Failure: 4
LCP Echo Interval: 10
Log File: /var/log/ppp.log
Verbose Logging: No
I have updated the disk's driver to version 1.1.1 from http://www.lacie.com/uk/support/drivers/driver.htm?id=10105 and have tried both the IP Configurator that came on the CD and the latest version from http://www.lacie.com/uk/support/drivers/driver.htm?id=10096
Has anyone else managed to get a similar disk running ok under Leopard? I've opened a ticket with LaCie support but thought I'd throw this open to a wider audience. I'll post any feedback I get from LaCie that leads to a positive result.

OK, I'm getting desparate here, and the only way to start a new thread is to reply to a previous thread I have (Apple, please fix the forums! No searching currently either!)
I have a Lacie drive that died on me - not showing up on the network, and making odd clicking noises. As a last ditch attempt I bought an external USB drive enclosure and took the HD out of the Lacie enclosure. Miraculously, the drive spins up much better and without any noise. I see the drive and all it's partitions in Disk Utility however none would mount. From what I've read, Lacie has an embedded Linux OS, so the partitions are formatted that way.
dk-kridan-consulting:~ dwayne$ ls -al /dev/disk1*
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 3 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 4 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s2
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 5 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s5
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 6 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s6
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 7 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s7
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 8 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s8
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 9 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s9
So I tried installing ExtFSManager from sourceforge, and I now two of the partitions mount and I can see the data (YAY!) However (of course) the partition I really need is not one of the ones that mount.
Does anyone know what I could be missing, and how I can possibly get these other partitions mounted? From the listing below, it looks like the two that mounted OK are of type ext2
dk-kridan-consulting:~ dwayne$ mount
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
fdesc on /dev (fdesc, union)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, automounted)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted)
/dev/disk1s7 on /Volumes/UNTITLED (ext2, local, nodev, nosuid)
/dev/disk1s8 on /Volumes/UNTITLED 1 (ext2, local, nodev, nosuid)
http://idisk.mac.com/dwaynekking/ on /Volumes/dwaynekking (webdav, nodev, noexec, nosuid, mounted by dwayne)
I have tried something like:
dk-kridan-consulting:~ dwayne$ mount -t ext2 /dev/disk1s2 /tmp/dktest
/mount_ext2: device '/dev/disk1s2' appears not to contain a valid filesystem
mount_ext2: /dev/disk1s2 on /private/tmp/dktest: Invalid argument
Not sure why the others won't mount.
I would be SO grateful to anyone who can help me out.
Dwayne

LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini 250Gb

I have recently bought the above external hard drive but I am struggling to install it. Into my router, I have connected Airport, the external hard drive and a Windows Laptop. The external hard drive is not apperaing on either my mac or the windows laptop when I run the IP Configurator wizard. Can anyone let me know what the problem is?? Help PLEASE!!

Thats a nice idea Vic but from my experience the client will blame you or your system for being slow and not their drive . . . reading into this the guy is already in denial about the feedback he has been given by cjsett.
To be honest if the client won't budge you are sincerely better to show him the door, you say you are trying to build a resume one would assume this is a resume reflecting a professional service. Don't be harried into starting something that you will not feel comfortable working on, I turn people away all the time mostly cos they want a discount on rates which I just don't do.
Be fair what kind of reaction would you expect if you took a car to a mechanic and then told them how to fix it.

Mac mini vs. Lacie Ethernet Hard Drive

So I just got a new Lacie Ethernet Disk mini that I'll be hooking up to my router. I also have a "spare" Mac mini that I thought about using as a file server. Both would just be connected to the router.
Which do you think would be faster in terms of access speeds? The Mac mini or the Lacie drive?
Ultimately I'll just be storing/accessing things like photos and design files.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
It can be done, but it's a very VERY expensive way of adding an external drive. Far better to sell it and buy a much less expensive external drive with far greater capacity and faster speed.
However, if you do with to do this, connect the two with a firewire cable, and with the iMac already running, boot the mini while holding the T key until the mini appears as a drive, mounted on the iMac desktop. That's firewire target disk mode.

Network Hard Drive on Airport Extreme setup?

Does anyone know if I'll be able to use a network harddrive wirelessly on my simple network?
My Airport Extreme is connected to both a USB printer and a DSL router. I'd attach the network harddrive (such as the LaCie Ethernet Disc Mini) to one of the spare sockets on the router.
Please help!
PC Windows XP Pro

davebish, Welcome to the discussion area!
Yes, it should work like any other networked device.

Lacie Ethernet Disk connected to Airport, no clients can access due to AFP

Hi, I'm using a new Lacie Ethernet Drive 500gig FAT-32 on it and all the clients on Macs get an AFP error, "This file server uses an incompatible version of the AFP protocol. You cannot connect to it."
Any thoughts, I was thinking I just need to enable TCP/IP connections but I can't get into it.
-Internet Wiz™

OK, I got it working now I have another question
Since the server is behiend my Airport do I need to open up specific ports on the Airport, if so what are they or where can I find them, and would I just use my public ISP IP addres like http://xx.xx.xx.xxx/ED_mini ? or a directory on it or what?
Thanks Again
-Internet Wiz™

Help needed: AEBSn won't recognize Lacie Ethernet Mini 320

I've searched this forum for help and haven't found anything on point so I'm posting my own request.
I've got the new Base Station hooked up via ethernet to a Lacie 320G Ethernet Mini drive. The Lacie Configurator does not work (no disk shows up to be administered), I can't get to the Lacie admin page via browser and the drive doesn't show up in Airport Disk Utility.
The drive also did not show up when connected via USB to my MacBook. I was, however, able to get the "share" network drive to show up and to copy a test Word document to it. I could not use Disk Utility on it, though. It didn't show up in that program's window of available drives. FWIW, the drive did show up in the System Profiler.
My reading of some of the posts here suggest that the drive may need to be reformatted (w/o journaling) if it doesn't show up on the desktop. Unfortunately, I can't begin to administer the disk, let alone reformat it. Lacie's site is devoid of any information bearing on this issue.
I'd appreciate any assistance. I've pulled out most of my hair already trying to understand what I've done wrong.
Thanks.
iMac 2Ghz/20: 2GigsRAM Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac 2Ghz/20 Mac OS X (10.4.1)
iMac 2Ghz/20 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

This is the last post I'm going to make about this.
While you might be right about the HD itself, I am
labeling the HD as "USB" or "Firewire" based simply
on what its interface IS--as the original poster did,
as the salesman who sold the 2 different HDs to me
did, as the common
non-techno-geek-who-knows-jack-squat-about-what's-insi
de-the-housing would do--which is the only thing that
really matters to the layman who is trying to plug a
HD into his AEBS and is wondering why it doesn't
work.
And actually, now that I've read back through your
last post: It's not correct either. You're talking
about "interfaces" but what your inane,
self-righteous previous answer misses the boat on is
exactly, again, what I've been trying to point out:
The LaCie hard drive we're talking about has Firewire
ports and USB ports but THE FIREWIRE PORT IS THE
INTERFACE BETWEEN THE HARD DRIVE AND THE COMPUTER THE
USB PORTS ARE *NOT**. The USB ports CAN be an
interface--between the computer and whatever devices
you plug into them, but in this case those USB ports
do NOT let the hard drive interact with the
computer.
I see you have 210 posts on these forums since your
registration in March--I hope your others weren't
able to cause anymore confusion than your posts to
this guy's question might have.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Airport Extreme w/ USB Hub Sharing (against my
will) w/ PC laptop, and still trying to find a
HD
Dude, you should stop posting, if you do not know what you are talking about. Here are a few quotes from your postings:
the key is that it's an ETHERNET-connected hard drive, and it has to actually be a USB-CONNECTED hard drive.
False.
because the USB ports are just a USB hub that's thrown on top of the Firewire HD.
False.
non-techno-geek-who-knows-jack-squat-about-what's-inside-the-housing
Exactly. I rest my case. When you don't know what you are talking about, you end up giving out false information that ends up confusing people even more.

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