Time Machine and IOMega StoreCenter

have a 500G boot drive. I'm trying to use Time Machine to backup to an external drive. The drive is an IOMega 1T StoreCenter connected to the Mac via Firewire.
The OS is OSX Server 10.5.6.
I erase the drive and start activate Time Machine. It backups exactly once. Then the next time it ought to be backing up. A window with the preparing message comes up. With the barber pole like think turning.
I tried all of the troubleshooting hints for Timne Machine and nothing works. The only thing that works or me is after the OSX boots to powerdoen and then power up the external drive. Then it starts working. But otherwise the screen just says "preparing" It'll go on like this for days.
I also tried the Time Machine buddy. But time machine won't talk to it either.
Is it me or does anyone else feel that Leopard is more "brittle" then previous versions?
Made sure that the hardware does not go into powersaver mode.
Took the disk out of spotlight.
Made sure that it's using GUID Partition Table.
It's also using the extended journaling filesystem.
This used to all work untill I took out the original 250G drive and replaced it with a 500G one.
I don't know what else to try? But the moving light on the drive is very nice eye candy. Shame I can't backup to it.

Henry Cline1 wrote:
I purchased and installed a Iomega 2TB Home Network Drive today primarily for usage with OS X and Time Machine.
Time Machine does not back up to most network drives. Here's the criteria they must meet: Disks that can be used with Time Machine. And be careful here: just because some 3rd-party hardware claims to support Time Machine doesn't necessarily mean that Apple supports it, or that it will work in all circumstances.
You may find some hardware or "hacks" that might make other things work, in some cases, to a degree. But use them at your own risk.
First, since this is *unsupported by Apple,* there's nowhere to go when there's trouble.
Second, you're risking a future update preventing it from working, and perhaps rendering your backups useless.
I tried to create a Time Machine backups from two different computers and both returned the error
The backup disk image "/volumes/backups-2/"mymacname.sparsebundle" could not be created (error 45)
Try the renaming suggestions in #C9 of the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.

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