Hi, Unless this is the newest Airport Extreme, using an external USB drive off an Airport Extreme is not supported with time machine. That said, the dismounting of the drive from the finder is the real problem. I have an Other World Computing Mercury Elite Pro Al enclosure hooked up to an Airport Extreme that has no random unmounting issues. That uses a 3Tb WD Red drive. I would suggest you see if another computer can mount the airport shared drive without you unplugging the drive from the airport. I suspect what you are seeing is a spin down problem with the drive itself, but it’s hard to diagnose without additional information.
Bottom line is the drive should not randomly unmount, but you should not be using that set up for time machine either. —k On Dec 30, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Angelo <a.rock...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I notice this only after my machine is restarted, it doesn’t happen after > reboot, or when it wakes from sleep. Can you reproduce the problem in any way? > > Angelo > a.rock...@gmail.com > > > > On Dec 30, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Listers, >> >> I have an external 1TB hard drive I had actually bought through Apple, that >> is attached via usb hub to my airport extreme. It is partitioned so that one >> volume is my backup volume for time machine and the other just a place I >> store data. Not infrequently, my time machine reports that it cannot find >> the disk. When I open finder and look for the hard drive myself and the >> volumes, once I reach airport extreme in the sidebar and vo+right arrow to >> the browser section, my volumes are not there. The only thing I can do is to >> disconnect the usb cable and reconnect it for the hard drive to be visible >> in finder again. >> >> I had done a lot of research before I went down the route of attaching a >> hard drive to airport extreme in this way and it should work in theory. Has >> anybody else noticed this behavior? It’s annoying because I sometimes do not >> know whether time machine is backing up as it should or not, and then when I >> check manually when the last backup was performed, it might be a few days >> prior. Is the way I have my external hard drive connected unstable in your >> opinion? I know that Apple prefers us all to have the time capsule but >> that’s expensive. I wonder whether I’d be better off attaching my external >> drive manually once a day to the usb port on the computer and backing up in >> this way. Inconvenient but at least I would know the backup has happened. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
