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I bought a HD-CELU2 1.5 TB DriveStation over a week ago and it's been a tedious process to get the drive recognized by my MacBook Pro w/Snow Leopard.

Finally I have been able to connect to the drive (it's connected via ethernet to an Airport Extreme) but I cannot copy or move files to it. I can create folders and, strangely, I have managed to save a web page from Firefox. I say strangely because no other application can save to the drive. I get errors like -37, -50 and now -1427, which I have no idea what it is. All I can create through Finder are Zero Kb files.

Now, if I copy or move the files with cp or mv, through the terminal, they copy fine. But while I can access them with applications I cannot save them back.

I have tried calling tech support, but the wait times are impossibly long for me. There is absolutely no support included with the drive for Macs although it is marketed as Mac ready.

Any suggestions before I send this back?

Thanks in advance.

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Having the exact same problem. Been looking all over the internet for a solution. So far none... Hope someone can help.

Have you found a solution?

I am joining the fray on this. Having the same issue and I HAVE HAD this issue since I bought this drive. I can create folders, but saving edits or performing large copies over the network bomb out or won't work.

In addition to this issue I formatted the drive MAC OSX EXTENDED with JOURNALING to see if using it in native mac mode would help and created a small 200gb FAT32 partition in case I ever need to copy to the drive or do backups on a windows box and NOW the ironic part is that when I plug in the drive using USB I can see all the data and partitions but when I switch back to Ethernet mode I can only access the FAT32 partition from my mac!

By the way this is the 2nd drive of these I've tried, I returned the first one because I couldn't get it to work either. No support, no knowledgebase articles for Mac support.

This is probably just a poorly designed drive and it doesn't do really much better on my Windows machines, had the same data copy issues there too.

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gjmartinez wrote:

No support, no knowledgebase articles for Mac support.

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Taken from the Buffalo website:

Client OS Support: Windows Vista® (32-bit/64-bit), Windows®XP, Windows®2000, Windows® Server 2003*, Windows® Server 2008*

Where does it say anywhere that it will work with a MAC?