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When will they fix the AEBS?

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superspiffy

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Feb 6, 2007
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With the flood of updates across the board, when are we finally gonna see an AEBS update so it'll be finally safe to reconnect my Airport disk?
 
superspiffy said:
With the flood of updates across the board, when are we finally gonna see an AEBS update so it'll be finally safe to reconnect my Airport disk?
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Waiting on the same thing... pain in the butt.. sometimes it makes me feel like I wasted the money on the AEBS when I could have gotten a much cheaper router that does the same thing.
 
My Airport disk was working fine with 10.5. The 10.5.1 updater broke it. Fortunately, I only did the update on one computer; our other three (10.5) all see the Airport disk. Unfortunately, the update was done on our Mac that syncs with our Apple TV. It's DOA for now, and I don't want to have to take the Airport disk off of the AEBSn. It's a real pain in the @$$.
 
My air disk works fine in 10.5.1. I had a problem at first where I had to cmd-k to connect to it to see my Air disk.. but then after a reboot it came up detected from the get go and properly authenticates my user.
 
I have the non-Gigabit AEBS (two of them actually) and with Leopard my Airport disk has gone from flakey to useless.

I wish I had just stayed with LinkSys, but I got suckered by the using Airdisk with Time Machine marketing.
 
RaceTripper said:
I have the non-Gigabit AEBS (two of them actually) and with Leopard my Airport disk has gone from flakey to useless.

I wish I had just stayed with LinkSys, but I got suckered by the using Airdisk with Time Machine marketing.
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I was planning on getting an AEBS. Even got a external HD of the same form factor to use with Time Machine. But all the complaints I've read have cooled my wallet, for now.

When they fix the firmware, get TM working with it, AND I see some good feedback here, I'm sure I'll buy it. But not right now.
 
My first AEBSn was a dud. Dropped WLAN connections out the arse. Air disk would umount itself whenever it wanted.

Returned it for another, this one is fine. No dropped connections, Air disk stays mounted to timbuktu and back.

:apple:
 
I go to my Finder sidebar, select the AEBS and it just shows "Connecting..." forever. The "Connect As..." button does nothing...no response...nadda...zilch.

Like I said earlier...totally useless. I'm going to probably dump these soon and get something that works.
 
RaceTripper said:
I go to my Finder sidebar, select the AEBS and it just shows "Connecting..." forever. The "Connect As..." button does nothing...no response...nadda...zilch.

Like I said earlier...totally useless. I'm going to probably dump these soon and get something that works.
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I had this, I deleted my keychains for the base station. I also hooked the drive directly up to my laptop ( win xp ) and had macdrive7 correct the drive (it said it contained errors). I also renamed the volume and re-plugged it into my AEBSn. This fixed the problem of mounting on my PC (as of 10.5.1 oddly enough) and it fixed it for my iMac as well. I can browse it as usual after these things were done.
 
Mindflux said:
I had this, I deleted my keychains for the base station. I also hooked the drive directly up to my laptop ( win xp ) and had macdrive7 correct the drive (it said it contained errors). I also renamed the volume and re-plugged it into my AEBSn. This fixed the problem of mounting on my PC (as of 10.5.1 oddly enough) and it fixed it for my iMac as well. I can browse it as usual after these things were done.
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No, that doesn't help. It's so hopelessly broken it isn't funny. If I have time today I'm headed over to Best Buy to get some kind of working solution. Then I'll probably Craigslist my two AEBS. I'll keep the Airport Express since it's useful for my iPhone and to use in hotels, etc that only have wired internet.

Not only does the Airport disk not work for me in Leopard, but these problems render it useless for my wife's MBP running Tiger. I did have her on automated backups using the .Mac Backup program, but that's now completely unreliable as well.

Apple really needs to get it together on the AEBS because it's pretty pathetic at the moment.
 
RaceTripper said:
No, that doesn't help. It's so hopelessly broken it isn't funny. If I have time today I'm headed over to Best Buy to get some kind of working solution. Then I'll probably Craigslist my two AEBS. I'll keep the Airport Express since it's useful for my iPhone and to use in hotels, etc that only have wired internet.

Not only does the Airport disk not work for me in Leopard, but these problems render it useless for my wife's MBP running Tiger. I did have her on automated backups using the .Mac Backup program, but that's now completely unreliable as well.

Apple really needs to get it together on the AEBS because it's pretty pathetic at the moment.
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Did you try all those steps? The keychains didn't help me, but repairing the disk (macdrive7 on my XP machine said it needed repair) and then renaming the drive label and hooking it back up worked for me. I also changed the password to access the drive (I just use password based access).
 
Mindflux said:
Did you try all those steps? The keychains didn't help me, but repairing the disk (macdrive7 on my XP machine said it needed repair) and then renaming the drive label and hooking it back up worked for me. I also changed the password to access the drive (I just use password based access).
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Nothing I do helps one iota. Before Leopard, I could access the disk. It was flakey in the sense it would disconnect now and then, but now it connects only now and then. I give up. The AEBS is going to be history. In hindsight it was dumb of me to switch from LinkSys. On a scale it 1-10 it was 9 while AEBS is 2-3 in terms of reliability, robustness, etc.
 
RaceTripper said:
Nothing I do helps one iota. Before Leopard, I could access the disk. It was flakey in the sense it would disconnect now and then, but now it connects only now and then. I give up. The AEBS is going to be history. In hindsight it was dumb of me to switch from LinkSys. On a scale it 1-10 it was 9 while AEBS is 2-3 in terms of reliability, robustness, etc.
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Apple stuff "Just Work™", rather than disconnect randomly what you are experiencing is merely Apple's superior code preventing you from connecting in conditions that would have resulted in a disconnect.
 
Found this just posted on apple's discussion boards.

Just got off the phone with AppleCare. Here's the solution...

Move the following two files to your desktop (or just move then to the Trash):
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

Logout and back in. Voilà!

This restores the Finder's ability to:
1) eject mounted disk images.
2) view/browse volumes that are no physically attached (e.g. AirPort Disks, shares on other Macs, etc.
3) view/browse iDisks.
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Mindflux said:
Found this just posted on apple's discussion boards.
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Tried it, and that did nothing. My Shared panel shows my AEBS and I still can't access the disk.

Networking is just not Apple's strong suit. Lesson learned: use something else for networking, save money in the process.
 
Whew - reading this makes me glad I didn't re-purchase an AEX yet. I returned mine in May 2007 or so because of the crappy AirDisk functionality locking the unit up or hanging on large rsyncs (probably the same issues that Apple found which caused official Time Machine support to be removed). I also bought a miniStack v2 external drive just to go with the AEX.

It sounds like it's still worthless as a NAS. What a shame - I loved the 5GHz wireless...
 
RaceTripper said:
Nothing I do helps one iota. Before Leopard, I could access the disk. It was flakey in the sense it would disconnect now and then, but now it connects only now and then. I give up. The AEBS is going to be history. In hindsight it was dumb of me to switch from LinkSys. On a scale it 1-10 it was 9 while AEBS is 2-3 in terms of reliability, robustness, etc.
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Same here, nothing works. I have the gigabit version and I already spent too much time trying to get it working. These problems hit the AEBS something like 6 months ago (may be more). Shame on Apple for selling broken products. I think I'll call macmall on Monday and return it.
 
Cross post from a another thread.
My experiences with AEBS and Apple

Apples BS Extreme is the biggest POS I have come cross in my 12 years of using apples products. It is not just that the product is faulty (be it the drivers or the hardware itself) but the Apples responses are over the top..

I have personally called to applecare now about 4 different times. First one was mainly because the unit didnt manage to WDS to my airport express and a bit because of the airdisk doesnt work.
Next three calls were about the airdisk.

Total time on telephone : 5 1/2 hours.
Problem solved : No.
Apple care denying that they have been reported of similar problems:Yes.
Applecare ignorin my references to apples own site,wich is full of similar problems: Yes.

So far they have suggested that :

A) I am incompetent and have set up the system un-properly.
B) I am harassing them.
C) I have faulty unit.
D) I am the first user to ever experience this kind of problem.
F) I have interference by other radio traffic.
G) My all 3 different tested drives are uncompatible / faulty.
H) My all 4 different Macs are faulty and/or would need OS restore.


Nice. I like.

After new year I will start a campaing in wich demand a new unit,return it when it is faulty and call apple care couple of times a day.

Viva !
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I agree that the AEBS is a pile of steaming crap - however I have had good luck w/my airport disks once I reinstalled the 7.1.1 firmware through airport utility. I still have to restart the base station every couple of days because it drops my printer but I'm well out of my return window so I'll just soldier on and hope that Apple releases some useful firmware update some time soon.

Edit: here's the post that got me back on 7.1.1
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1155412&tstart=0

Edit 2: I'm pretty sure that my BS is the non-gigabit version so my advice might be completely moot - sorry.
 
I've done two things to improve my situation with Airport disks under leopard.

1) reverted my AEBS firmware to 7.1.1
2) Under Finder preferences > General, I select the "Connected Servers" checkbox to show Airport disk icons on the desktop.

It's still flakey, but much better than it was.
 
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