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Base Station Hard Drive

  • 27-02-2008 6:56pm
    #1
    jmck87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭


    Guys,

    I have a freecom external hard drive (ms-dos format) connected to my apple wireless base station.

    Problem is this...

    When plugged into USB of iMac everything is fine.

    But when accessed wirelessly via base station about half my music disappears and one particular folders contents disappear also.

    File formats are varying.

    Any ideas?

    Btw...if i re-formatted a drive as Mac OSX extended via disk utility will a windows pc be able to read and write to it via a base station?

    Thanks guys.


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  • #2
    Type 17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    I doubt that it is the wrong format, or you would not be able to mount the drive at all (MS-DOS should be fine, whereas NTFS can only be read, not written to, by Mac).

    Might be a permissions issue - plug the drive into your Mac and check the permissions of the folders that you can't see when it's on the AEBS.


  • #3
    jmck87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭jmck87


    Cheers for the reply.

    Sorry for the stupid question...but what you mean by check permissions?

    As in click get info for the folder?

    Just says under permissions ''You can read & write'' for all folders i check.


  • #4
    Dorsanty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Dorsanty


    All that's needed is for the Airport to be able to read the disk.

    The network protocol which shares the files/drive is independent of the filesystem used. I believe the Airport uses cifs/smb protocol.


    So in short, yes your windows machine will be able to connect to a cifs/smb share on the network.


  • #5
    Type 17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    jmck87 wrote: »
    Cheers for the reply.

    Sorry for the stupid question...but what you mean by check permissions?

    As in click get info for the folder?

    Just says under permissions ''You can read & write'' for all folders i check.

    Yes, more info here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712

    However, it seems to say the right thing on your folders (is this for you, the user?)

    Can you see any pattern to the folders' unavailability - were they copied there from a PC or a different Mac than yours?


  • #6
    jmck87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭jmck87


    Yeah actually both folders were copied onto the hard drive with a windows pc.

    Anyway of putting it right?


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  • #7
    Type 17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    Try this:

    Check each folder's size on the external drive by using the get info window
    Copy them onto your Mac's Hard Drive (if don't have space for all of them, do them one at a time)
    Confirm that they are the same size in the info window (just a safety check to ensure that you aren't losing anything)
    Ensure that all permissions are correct on the copies now on your Mac
    Delete them on the external drive
    Copy them back from your Mac to the external HD

    I've added a lot of checking in there for safety's sake, but you could just copy them, delete the originals and copy them back, but if the data is hard/impossible to replace and something does go wrong, you might regret rushing it.


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