In article <1ih50qf.1kivco9mx1mcnN%dempson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
dempson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David Empson) wrote:
> Alan Baker <alangbaker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> I haven't tested it myself, but my understanding from reading comments
> elsewhere (after the last batch of updates) is that it still doesn't
> work automatically. You have to do one special operation: connect the
> hard drive to a Mac running Leopard first, which creates an invisible
> file which is used by Time Machine to identify that the drive is
> compatible. You can then connect it to an Air****t Extreme base station.
> If you subsequently erase the drive using the Air****t Extreme, the
> procedure has to be repeated.
What can I tell you? Your understanding is incorrect.
I've got an Air****t Extreme and when I plugged in a 500GB hard drive and
mounted it onto my MacBook Pro's desktop, Time Machine asked me if I
wanted to use it as a backup disk.
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