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Connecting to Airport Extreme Drives Question
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I just got an airport extreme and I am trying to access drives connected to it. I have 2 drives here. One is MacOS HFS formatted and works perfectly both when connected to the computer directly and when connected through the airport. The other drive is Fat 32 formatted. When I connect it directly to the mac it shows up correctly with the name it was given "250GiG". The problem is when I connect it to the airport extreme. It shows up in the "drives" menu as "NO NAME". Then that automated window pops up with the airport logo and asks if I want to connect to it and I input a username and password. So, all is good right? wrong! If I eject that drive I now have no way to reconnect to it. If I connect both drives to a hub into the airport and then invoke a manual connection to the airport VIA the "connect to server" option from the finder, only the HFS formatted drive appears when I get the option to choose what drive to mount. The only way to mount the FAT 32 drive seems to be to turn off the airport extreme and then back on...when it finishes booting the automatic "The AirPort Disk '' became available. What do you want to do " dialogue appears and I can mount it. Obviously it is not ideal to have to restart the computer or the airport to be able to mount that one drive. Is there possibly some problem with the way the airport handles fat 32 drives? Is there a way to get that "The airport disk..." dialogue to come up manually?
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If I'm not mistaken, the AirPort box should "virtualize" the drives, so it won't matter what their format is. In other words, the AirPort Extreme translates data to and from the drive to and from the network protocol-ANY computer on the network should be able to read and write to them regardless of what platform that computer is.
I should add that the above only applies if you're ONLY using these USB drives through the AirPort Extreme. If you plan to use them on a non-Mac computer directly through a USB connection, that's a very different issue, and you would need to have them/it formatted in a compatible format.
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Right, but the article says that the ap uses different network protocols for different formats. Plus, you still have the 4gb limit, even if you virtualize.
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Well, my problem is not that some computers are not able to connect, its how the airport is handling that drive. It doesn't show up in the choices of drives to mount when I manually connect, but it does ask me if I want to mount it when I first connect to the network or reboot the airport with a different kind of dialouge box. I want to know how to get that dialogue box or/and how to get the drive properly recognized. I know something is wrong cause of this symtom: the drive is named "250GIG" but in the airport setup it calls it "NO NAME".
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As I said, I think it is because different drive formats use different network protocols.
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