Help!"Īlthough most users were saying that they were able to access AirPort Disks from Time Machine, as of 3 p.m. "Now my Mac (and a PC) cannot see the AirPort at all, even in the settings! I tried resetting in all ways possible and still no luck, yet it turns on and seems OK. "I just updated by AirPort to 7.3.1, along with the AirPort utility to the newest," said "djsbos" in a different thread. Others claimed that the firmware update "bricked" their AirPort Extreme or killed its connection to the Internet. "Even with the new 7.3.1 firmware my does not allow me to see my USB disk," said a user with the alias senseiwa. Some reported that they were still unable to get Time Machine to recognize external USB drives connected to an AirPort Extreme. Not everyone was happy with yesterday's router firmware update, however. I believed them, and look where that got me." "All you needed was and a USB drive, and Time Machine would do the rest. "I was one of the suckers to buy an and 500GB hard drive when Apple posted that Leopard would be the answer to the backup problem," said a user identified as John Wolcott back in January. The angry customers said that Time Capsule was what their AirPort Extreme should be, and they wasted little time lighting up support forums. The clamor got even louder after Jobs introduced Time Capsule, Apple's first wireless storage appliance, in January. Some users who had bought AirPort Extreme counting on the now-missing feature felt ripped off. However, Apple pulled the functionality from Leopard at the last minute.
The complaints stemmed from comments by Jobs last summer, when he said that the then-still-in-development Leopard operating system would let users back up using Time Machine to drives connected to AirPort Extreme devices.
Some Apple customers had been irate for months over the inability of their $179 AirPort Extreme Base Station routers to work with Leopard's backup software. "It now seems that Apple has added this functionality with AirPort Extreme Firmware 7.3.1, which can be applied via AirPort Utility after Time Machine and AirPort Updates 1.0 is applied," said another Apple enthusiast site, MacFixIt. Very happy," added Eddie, another commenter on. "Same result - backing up my iMac and MacBook.
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