In article <1ih3s3j.us2yglpflbmnN%dempson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
dempson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David Empson) wrote:
> Mitch <mitch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > In article <mr-3C0C3F.07272817052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sandman
> > <mr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> > > It can? Cool. And it can also backup to hard drives conected to
> > > air****t base stations, as far as I know.
> >
> > Someone in here was claiming this was cut out.
> > Doesn't make any sense to me that Apple would cut it out, and it would
> > be damning indeed if they did so.
> > At the time, it seemed one cited problem was being magnified into a
> > cor****ate policy decision -- and I haven't gone back to check into
> > whether or when it was fixed.
>
> It was an advertised feature prior to the release of Leopard (while
> Apple was saying "feature set not finalised"). Just before Leopard was
> released, all mention was removed for Time Machine sup****t of backing up
> to disks connected to an Air****t Extreme base station.
>
> Since then, it seems that Apple has been steadily working on
> improvements to Time Machine, Leopard in general and the Air****t Extreme
> firwmare, but they haven't yet got to the point where they are
> officially sup****ting this particular feature. It might turn up in
> future but at present you have to do some minor hackery to get Time
> Machine to recognise a disk connected to a an Air****t Extreme.
I'm sorry, but that is no longer correct.
They don't offer sup****t for the feature, but it works without any
special steps by the user.
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