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What's needed to hook up my external HD's to my Airport Extreme ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Doug b" data-source="post: 716187" data-attributes="member: 59143"><p>Apple store people seem to be useless. Straight up to the "genius" bar. The repeated answer I got was, " I think you can only do that with Time Machine". Um...no, that's not true I insisted, but was then told that they weren't sure. I called tech support on the phone after that, but wasn't home in order to trouble shoot. Regardless, I was at least informed that I should be able to daisy chain up to 4 devices via the USB connection in the back of the Airport Extreme. Was told to do a couple things, which I had already tried, but again, wasn't home to try again. </p><p></p><p>To those of you who are hooking up external drives via their Airport Extreme's, are any of the drives formatted to FAT 32 ? I was also told that it's possible that not all external drives will work. This leaves far too many variables and different drives to try. It also limits my options if I have to buy a straight mac formatted external. </p><p></p><p>Any suggestions on a good external that isn't necessarily Mac "certified" ?</p><p></p><p>Doug</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug b, post: 716187, member: 59143"] Apple store people seem to be useless. Straight up to the "genius" bar. The repeated answer I got was, " I think you can only do that with Time Machine". Um...no, that's not true I insisted, but was then told that they weren't sure. I called tech support on the phone after that, but wasn't home in order to trouble shoot. Regardless, I was at least informed that I should be able to daisy chain up to 4 devices via the USB connection in the back of the Airport Extreme. Was told to do a couple things, which I had already tried, but again, wasn't home to try again. To those of you who are hooking up external drives via their Airport Extreme's, are any of the drives formatted to FAT 32 ? I was also told that it's possible that not all external drives will work. This leaves far too many variables and different drives to try. It also limits my options if I have to buy a straight mac formatted external. Any suggestions on a good external that isn't necessarily Mac "certified" ? Doug [/QUOTE]
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