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I just received my new Time Capsule (500gb) a couple hours ago.
I have to correct a misconception, including a couple post I have made that may have misled others.
If I'm wrong about any of this, and you know so from personal experience, please correct me.
Research on this forum and others led me to believe you can easily partition Time Capsule. I have contributed to this by passing this on to others. You cannot. The Time Capsule does not show up in Disk Utility. Leopard does not recognize it as a typical external drive. It shows up in your Finder under Shared, not under Devices with other USB drives.
You can read and write to it just like any other external drive. Once I installed the AirPort utility on my wife's XP PC, she can also read and write to it. But you can not use Disk Utility to partition it to prevent Time Machine from hogging the whole disk.
I haven't researched the details of this (and I probably won't), but there may be a hack to get around it. Apparently, you can physically disassemble Time Capsule, manually connect the hard drive portion via USB and then partition the drive. (I guess it's just a standard internal drive.) You then reassemble Time Capsule with the partitioned drive and neither Leopard or Time Machine complain about this. I'm not entirely clear how the new partition shows up in your Finder.
Just thought I'd pass that on now that I've found out the hard way. If anyone has some info that conflicts with this, please feel free to contribute.
I have to correct a misconception, including a couple post I have made that may have misled others.
If I'm wrong about any of this, and you know so from personal experience, please correct me.
Research on this forum and others led me to believe you can easily partition Time Capsule. I have contributed to this by passing this on to others. You cannot. The Time Capsule does not show up in Disk Utility. Leopard does not recognize it as a typical external drive. It shows up in your Finder under Shared, not under Devices with other USB drives.
You can read and write to it just like any other external drive. Once I installed the AirPort utility on my wife's XP PC, she can also read and write to it. But you can not use Disk Utility to partition it to prevent Time Machine from hogging the whole disk.
I haven't researched the details of this (and I probably won't), but there may be a hack to get around it. Apparently, you can physically disassemble Time Capsule, manually connect the hard drive portion via USB and then partition the drive. (I guess it's just a standard internal drive.) You then reassemble Time Capsule with the partitioned drive and neither Leopard or Time Machine complain about this. I'm not entirely clear how the new partition shows up in your Finder.
Just thought I'd pass that on now that I've found out the hard way. If anyone has some info that conflicts with this, please feel free to contribute.