Time Capsule with 250Gb LaCie disk
I've just purchased a 1Tb Time Capsule. I want to connect my existing 250Gb LaCie disk to the USB port in the time capsule. However, when I do this it doesn't appear in "Disks" under Airport utility or as as a disk in Finder - the only disk I see is the one in the time capsule itself. The disk works fine when connected directly to my MacBook Pro via the firewire port.
Looking at the LaCie disk in Disk Utility it is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and the Partition Map Scheme is Apple Partition Map.
Any ideas what the problem could be?
Thanks
Mike
Just noticed that the disk does not mount if connected directly to my MacBook Pro via a USB 2.0 port so the problems seems to be a more general one to do with the USB connection. I have no idea why this disk won't connect via USB 2.0 but is fine using Firewire 800!
Mike
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