[Geoff]

I have just added a Western Digital 1 TB HD to our AE Base Station. All software and firmware updates have been done and working with Leopard

The drive shows up in Airport Utility, shows up on the desktop IF I do a Finder/Go/Connect To Server/ command each time I boot up.

The drive does NOT show up for Time Machine OR Disk Utility so essentially defeats the purpose of adding a backup HD to cover off our two Macs - iMac and MBP.

Does anyone have any idea on how to make this work??

[Geoff]

Finally some joy on this issue!!

Here is my workaround (or solution).

On the Western Digital HD there was a .pdf buried on it with the real hint. That is the HD comes preformatted in FAT32.

So first I connected it directly to the Mac rather than the Airport Base Station. This allows it to be seen on the desktop AND read by Disk Utility. It also allowed it to be read by Time Machine. However I chose to reformat it in Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Then the Time Machine initial backup was done through the Mac. When completed I plugged the HD back into the Base Station, went to Finder/Go/Connect To Server using the smb://10.0.1.1 address. Voila, The icon is back on the desktop and readable by Time Machine

I suspect this all could have been done without backing up through the Mac first. Just happened that is the way I did it.

The Key seems to be to reformat the HD to other than FAT32 for the Airport end of things. Seems to me that was the problem I had when I was backing up both PC and Mac to one HD. FAT32 as I recall will not work that way.

So a solution that works. May require the HD on Base Station to be mounted each time you power up. Minor inconvenience once you are going though.

Cheers

Geoff