Time Machine - Seagate GoFlex

Hi
I have been using a Seagate GoFlex Home drive connected to my wireless router as my Time Machine backup drive.
It has stopped working and i get a message saying,
"The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features.
Open Time Machine preferences to select a different backup disk."
Is this because of Lion, or a different reason.
Please help
Ben

This seems to be related to the new Mac OS X upgrade, Lion.
I found the following post from Seagate in their Knowledge Base:
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?page=1&NewLang=en&D ocId=219971
I subscribed to the article in case there are any updates to this issue.

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