Comments on: Air Disk: A Sales Feature or Vaporware? http://steidler.net/2008/03/23/air-disk-a-sales-feature-or-vaporware/ Immersed in the Macintosh after switching from Linux. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:18:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Greg Balanko-Dickson http://steidler.net/2008/03/23/air-disk-a-sales-feature-or-vaporware/comment-page-1/#comment-2538 Greg Balanko-Dickson Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:47:04 +0000 http://steidler.net/2008/03/23/air-disk-a-sales-feature-or-vaporware/#comment-2538 @Ben thanks for the feedback of what worked for you. When I get some time I might give that a try. @Ben thanks for the feedback of what worked for you.

When I get some time I might give that a try.

]]> By: Ben Pickering http://steidler.net/2008/03/23/air-disk-a-sales-feature-or-vaporware/comment-page-1/#comment-2536 Ben Pickering Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:56:45 +0000 http://steidler.net/2008/03/23/air-disk-a-sales-feature-or-vaporware/#comment-2536 I managed to get this working on Leopard. The two things I think I did differently in my successful attempt were: - connect the Extreme via Ethernet cable to the Mac and install the recent software updates and firmware updates to the base station. When I had tried to update the firmware wirelessly it crashed with an unexplained error. - mount the disk with SMB rather than AFP (Use Connect To Server in Finder with an address like smb://xx.xx.xx.xx/ where the IP address is visible in AirPort Utility) This seems to work for me, I can see the files reliably. Before, once the Mac dropped the connection to the base station it couldn't remount it. I do have some issues with copying files, however. On several occasions it has said 'unable to copy, file is in use' when this is clearly not the case as immediately retrying usually succeeds. I managed to get this working on Leopard. The two things I think I did differently in my successful attempt were:

- connect the Extreme via Ethernet cable to the Mac and install the recent software updates and firmware updates to the base station. When I had tried to update the firmware wirelessly it crashed with an unexplained error.

- mount the disk with SMB rather than AFP (Use Connect To Server in Finder with an address like smb://xx.xx.xx.xx/ where the IP address is visible in AirPort Utility)

This seems to work for me, I can see the files reliably. Before, once the Mac dropped the connection to the base station it couldn’t remount it.

I do have some issues with copying files, however. On several occasions it has said ‘unable to copy, file is in use’ when this is clearly not the case as immediately retrying usually succeeds.

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