Losing connection to My Book 1 TB hard drive connected to airport. Keep having to restart airport. Huge inconvenience as all users get bumped off every time...need help!
I originally thought the problem was due to both windows and apple machines accessing the hard drive. Well now I have only apple devices. Everything is current in terms of software. Still having the issue with My Book (Western Digital 1 TB external hard drive) being accessable and then disappearing when I step away from computer. Restarting the hard drive does not work. I have to restart my airport everytime!
Ok I'm just guessing at your topology here... But... Do we have your Western Digital drive connected into the usb of an airport?
I'm stilll not fully sure on what we have here...
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Here what's going on. I have an old aiport, Iomega external hard drive and a Netgear N router. My goal is so connect the external hard drive to the airport via the USB port so I can access my photos through the network. I have a Mac Book pro with a full hard drive and a PC laptop. The Netgear N router is currently connected to my cable modem and the Airport is connected to the Netgear Router in bridge mode. However when I connect the External HD to the Airport it cannot be seen. I can see it when I connect it to my mac directly but I would prefer to share my pictures over the network and keep the External HD stationary instead of moving wherever my laptop goes. I also read that the Airport can slow down the internet speed because it is not an "N" so that is why I currently have it in bridge mode. Is there anyway to get this done? Thanks in advance.
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i have just linked an external hard drive to my airport extreme but it does not seem to appear in finder under shared !!!! any ideasi have plugged the hard drive into a usb router which in turn is plugged to to the AEBS it is visible in airport utility but then can not find it anywhere else!!
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