Apple AirPort Networks Troubleshooting Guide download pdf (Page 42)

Prepare Your Drive

The Time Capsule’s internal drive comes preformatted, so it should

be ready to go, but it can be erased to its pristine state through AirPort

Utility (see Erase, ahead).

You must format attachable disks before you connect them to the base

station, using either the

Mac HFS+ format, or the

FAT16 or FAT32

(MS-DOS) formats. Each partition on a disk becomes a separately

available shared volume. (FAT16 supports smaller maximum partition

sizes than FAT32; you’re unlikely to see FAT16 except on disks

formatted by very old computers.)

You can connect a single drive to the USB port on the Extreme or Time

Capsule, or connect a USB hub and then a series of drives to the hub.

The

drives may be hard drives or USB thumb (flash) drives, but you

cannot use CD/DVD drives with removable media.

Once one or more drives are formatted and connected, you can access

them and let others access them, too. You handle all the

limited

configuration options in AirPort Utility in the Disks view.

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