Apparently the problem, according to Lacie support is that:
"If you have a edmini gigabit drive then you will not be able to use
it with time machine. The USB port on the drive is a USB network port.
Since time machine doesn't work with network drives, it will not work.
Also the format on the drive is XFS, and Apple has said that only HFS+
will work with time machine.
If you have a edmini 10/100 then the drive should show up on the
desktop when you connect to it via USB, and after running the
edmini_logon program in the drive, you will be able to use time
machine with it, if the drive has been formatted into HFS+ by you."
<http://www.lacie.com/more/?id=10050>
Is my LaCie hard disk compatible with Time Machine?
On Apple Time Machine Discussions some people suggest:
"Execute this in a Terminal window:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences
TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Launching TM prefs next time should show mounted network volumes in
the chooser after this.
Having said this, please note that as of now, TM is not officially
supported for Backups over Network Volumes."
Cheers,
Ronni
On 06/12/2007, at 1:40 PM, Brett Clarke wrote:
The fact that you are logging in to it (the drive) probably means
that OSX still thinks its Network Attached Storage (NAS), which it
sounds like what the device was purchased as - even though you are
using the USB bus to attach it.
I don't think your problem is to do with the drive formatting as
others have suggested.
I believe as a NAS device, there is some firmware that is producing
the logon message (which wont be impacted by reformatting) and I
don't think Time Machine is likely to be compatible with it. Time
machine will work with network shares provided by OSX 10.5 server,
but if it worked with the La Cie device you would be lucky indeed!
Regards,
Brett Clarke
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On 04/12/2007, at 7:53 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:
Hi Wamug, I've got a 250Gb Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini 10/100, and I'd
like to use it for Time Machine.
This disk was originally setup to allow log on via a network (its
original purpose). But now I just want to use it as an external
drive via USB.
When I plug it in to the USB port, it appears in Finder and I can
log in. But Time Machine doesn't recognise it as a valid external
drive.
After hitting a few brick walls, can anyone illuminate me:
- Can I use this disk for Time Machine?
- If I can but I need to set it up as an external USB drive rather
than a network drive (with login), how do I do this?
After checking the manual and using the install CD for the disk, I
can't find any references to setting it up as a USB disk. So maybe
it only operates as a network drive.
Thanks for any assistance.
Glenn.
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