Lacie mini HD and Hub with Airport Disk

Has anyone tried a Lacie mini HD and Hub with the Airport Disk and can you confirm whether the full features of the disk are available - i.e. the hub?

I have a Lacie 250 drive/mini hub connected to airport. I also have a printer connected to the USB hub on the Lacie.
I have had no problem with the drive or the printer being recognized by the AEBS. I have also had no problem with networked mac computers recognizing or accessing either the drive or the printer.
I have NOT been able to get my one windows computer to connect to the drive. Also, the drive drops out inexplicably a lot of data is transferred, and it requires a restart of the AEBS to reconnect. On restart the macs have no problem seeing it again.
I am trying to use it as a backup drive for a couple of computers. It is OK as long as the backups are incremental (after doing a full backup with the drive connected to the computer). If the backup is large, it won't work (today it crashed at 8 Gigs. Based on threads I have read, others are having this problem.

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http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
It also specifically says: "You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive connected to a Mac as a Time Machine backup drive. Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices."
Surely, they would have included the Airport Extreme Base Station in this list if it was supported.
I really hope there will be another firmware update for the AEBS which will bring compatibility with Time Machine, because Time Machine was the only reason for me to buy an AEBS. (I only use it as a small backup server, I don't even have wireless networking enabled. There were other solutions, e.g. from Synology, which are faster and more reliable than AEBS disk sharing, but Synology stated their network drives would not be compatible with Time Machine.)

Here's how you can potentially use your AirDisk with TimeMachine (beware that YMMV), but it should work as it works with every other "unsupported" device.
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2) Open Terminal.app
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ie: cd "/Volumes/AirDisk Name"
4) execute this command to "bless" the drive to be used with time machine:
touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported
5) Start TimeMachine and if all went well, it should recognize your AirDisk drive and use it for TM.
This should also work on NFS shares, SMB shares, AFP shares, basically anything. It has worked up until the last developer seed, so unless they yanked this at the last minute, it should still work.
Now, the reason why Apple removed this feature may be due to the unreliability of the AirDisk, so be cautious.

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Lacie doesnt make HD, thats a Seagate inside the box.
Is there a fix?
Yes, get a 4TB max HD, 6TB drives are both new and have known issues, ...in fact so do most all 4TB drives.
my problem suggests that it's with one of the LaCie's
You mean Seagate
Large external hard drives are great! Large external hard drives are horrible
It is a common premise that people are overjoyed at the dropping prices per terabyte on external hard drives, and the first thing that enters most peoples minds is "great, I can put all my stuff on one drive,... all of it!" However considerations need to be made in creating a giant single choke point for not mere data loss, but seriously large data loss. If there is at the very least yet another redundant copy, this is fine, otherwise do not consider it whatsoever. Some 3TB and 4TB drives of all mfg. have, at the time of this writing, reliability concerns currently and best recommendation is staying at 2TB drives or less.
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Since you are able to get it to run without an airport card, I would backup your data and erase and install. If after an erase and install without adding back any peripherals, airport doesn't work as expected, and you apply all the airport software updates, then I'd say the airport card is faulty. See my backup FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
See this page for airport software updates:
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I want to add a hard drive to my Time Capsule 2TB. I've read the other posts here, but am still feeling uncertain about how to be successful. I have a printer connected, and want to keep it connected, so I know I need a hub. I have a USB-powered hard drive that I'd like to use, and I have a USB-powered hub that I could use.
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Do I have this right?
Yes.
And the next question, is anyone using an externally powered USB hub that they know works with the Time Capsule?
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LaCie Mini HD and Base Station

Is it possible to use the extra usb and firewire connections wirelessly? i have my Lacie hard drive set up with my base station and it works fine but if i plug a usb peripheral into the hard drive nothign happens. Does it have to be hard wires to work? Because on the Base Station description it says you can get a usb hub for it to allow more connections (airport itself) surely plugging the hard drive into the airport this should be the same thing?

Presumably, if I had a LaCie HD and Hub and an AirPort Extreme, I could connect the USB hub of the LaCie to the AirPort and then connect a USB printer and the HD on the LaCie to the USB hub to share both the HD and my printer wirelessly? It just couldn't support other USB devices wirelessly?
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Setup wireless network for mac and pc with Airport Express?

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Question,
I have my AIrPort Express setup for my Mac Mini and I have dell computer that I want to share the wireless network. Is it possible to setup a wireless network with my mini and the pc using only the AirPort Express? Is the Airport Express a wireless router?
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If your Mac Mini is connecting to the Express using wireless, then this confirms that the device is working correctly.
The Express is a wireless router that can support up to 10 wireless connections, so your Dell computer should be able to connect assuming that its wireless card is working correctly, and the Dell indentifies the network and enters the correct wireless network password.
If you are having difficulty with the Dell PC connecting, this Windows troubleshooting document might help:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/network-connection-problem-help#netwo rk-problems=windows-8&v1h=win8tab1&v2h=win7tab1&v3h=winvistatab1&v4h=winxptab1

Mac Mini won't boot with install disk

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+What is the source of the idea that the mac aluminum keyboard won't work with the mini?+
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Files/folders not showing up with Airport Disk but are there?

I've recently bought the Airport Extreme, I was all excited about Airport Disk but there is a weird, extremly annoying bug.
On my USB hard drive connected using Airport Disk, I have a folder called music. When I open this folder, OS X starts reading the directory and files/folders show up one by one, but then it just all disappears - and the folder shows nothing. In Windows, it shows nothing at all in the folder. However, when I reconnect the drive using USB to my MacBook Pro, all my music is there and I can see all the files.
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I was experiencing the same. on the XP box it just wouldnt show anything period and on the Mac, the finder would briefly display the contents of the drive before disappearing. Spoke to Tier 2 and they thought I should reformat the drive, since he thought it likely that due to severing the drives connection that the format was corrupt...
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then i hardwired it to the PC. deleted the "FROM" folder which in this case was a file folder, and 237MB approx in size. I also deleted the ".DSStore" and ".Trashes" files. .DSStore is basically the icon cache and .Trashes is when you delete something on the airdisk from the Mac. reconnected the drive and POOF! it worked Problem is now solved.
So to summate, i think in my case it was more the discrepancy between the FROM not showing up as anything on the Mac, versus it being a full fledged folder to windows xp. i just thought i would pass this along...
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Fax and Scan with Airport Express

I have an Airport Express with my Mac and a Windows Vista PC running on my wireless network. I have a HP PSC printer, but I am unable to scan or fax from either computer. Any ideas if this is possible, and if so, how?

I have a HP PSC printer, but I am unable to scan or fax from either computer.
Unfortunately, not all USB printers are compatible with AirPort base stations. In addition, the AirPort's USB port does not support the "advanced" printer functions, like scanning, copying or faxing, of multi-function printers.
Any ideas if this is possible, and if so, how?
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Multiple Printers on USB Hub with Airport Express

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Can AE be hooked up to a powered 4 port USB hub to which three printers are connected?
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through a Wired connection to my router i get to the internet fine
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PC1--Mac Mini
PC2--Fedora Core 5 Linux Laptop
PC3--Fedora Core 5 Linux Desktop
PC4--Madriva 2006 Linux Desktop
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I tried turning AirPort on but the MAC only sees the internet when i conect the Cat 5 cable to the 10/100 Ethernet slot
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I also want to SHARE the connection with other PCS
here is my list of PCS
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