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AE Flat + Airport Disk Troubles
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nickhos38
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Mar 15, 2007, 11:32 PM
 
I just got my new AE Flat today. I like it a lot, but I would like it even more if I could use it to access my USB HD (which is the whole reason I purshased the new AE in the first place).

The drive connects fine when directly connected to my PBG4 over USB 2.0. Like I said, I can't connect to it over the AE Flat. I can connect to my USB flash drive over the AE Flat, so I don't think there is anything wrong with the base station--unless it is a compatibiltiy issue.

I have a 750GB SATA Seagate inside of a CoolDrives USB 2.0/eSATA enclosure (MINI eSATA + USB 2.0 Aluminum Removable Drive Enclosure). The drive is formatted Mac OS Extended. Is my enclosure not compatible with the new AE Flat? If not, will it ever be?

I also read an article amongst Apple's support pages that said somethign about block sizes needing to be 512 bytes. What does this mean? How do I check or fix this?

Has anyone else had trouble connecting to their USB drives through the AE Flat???
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Mar 16, 2007, 11:06 AM
 
I just phoned Apple Technical Support about this issue. The gentleman from their department told me that the AE Flat is experiencing issues with some USB hard drives/enclosures that have multiple/different interface connections.

They are looking into the problem and will contact me with or without a solution for my particular drive.

If anyone else has a similar problem, I recommend calling Apple Technical Support to let them know about problems with your particular drive
     
   
 
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