On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:18:59 +0100, LR <lrme@privacy.net> wrote:

>Have you tried it with an external USB Hard Drive yet?

Yep. Works fine with my Western Dismal 320GB USB drive:
<http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=391>
which is FAT32 formatted. However, a SimpleTech 330GB USB drive
didn't work because of NTFS formatting. Apple knows about the issue.
Apparently, it's intentional:
<http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/wd-pumps-out-my-passport-for-mac-my-book-mac-edition/>
where vendors are expected to deliver PC only and Mac only drives.

I've been told that it's not terribly difficult to reformat external
USB drives to FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, EFS, or whatever is deemed useful.

I did have a problem with a Seagate Free Agent | Go drive:
<http://freeagent.seagate.com/en-us/hard-drive/Free-Agent.html>
The drive comes with two USB cables. One cable has two USB plugs in
order to get more power to run the drive. That's not a problem with
the 250GB version, but the 500GB version would sometimes fail to start
if powered from only one USB plug. The problem is that the Airport
Extreme only has one USB jack on the rear panel.



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