" Mike, Downloaded and installed the updates and firmware update.
Both my sons' iMac G5's and my wife's MacBook's Time Machine recognizes the attached 500 GB HD, but ONLY after the AirDisk volume was mounted on the Desktop.

My wife's MacBook backs up directly to a USB 2.0 HD. My sons will use the AirPort Extreme (Fast Ethernet) attached 500 GB AirDisk for its Time Machine backups. I just got home from work, so I'll email back after I wake up and let you know how it went.
-Fabian"

Speeds are typically around 6MB/sec max with AE base connected USB drives (based on past reports), so it's not very fast but it is nice that apple finally enabled that. (I use a FW800 drive for TM.)

" Same for me... (AirDisk working with Time Machine after firmware update.) Using USB Lacie 500GB Big Disk ... transfer speed 5+MB per second
-Kevin"

The reader that first reported AirDisks working for TM after the update sent a later mail:

"Time Machine appears to be working as advertised. I'm up to 12GB of a 67GB backup. Thru put is relatively slow with the airdisk... 2-4 MB/s. I think after the first backup is done the speed won't be too much of an issue and the wireless connecting a big plus.
-George"

BTW: Ken Lo wrote with a note for those that still can't get TM to recognize their Airdisks to check the AirDisk setup/config - saying that Secure Shared Disks With a disk password are recognized, but not Secure Shared Disks With accounts.

Also a reader that previously had reported NAT Port Mapping problems w/7.2.1 firmware said the 7.3.1 update seems to have helped:

" A follow up to this: the new firmware for the AEBS released today (version 7.3.1) seems to have fixed the NAT-PMP issues I was having. I had hard-mapped ports set up in AirPort Utility for uTorrent on WIndows Vista with 7.2.1. Today, after updating the AEBS firmware, I removed the port mapping and changed the port uTorrent was using and the port was mapped automatically by uTorrent using the NAT-PMP protocol.
I also tested the mapping from MacOS using Cabos, and the mapping was also automatically mapped by the application using NAT-PMP.
-Fitz"

I welcome other reader feedback on this firmware update.
BTW - one reader said he's seen some TimeCapsule "slowdowns" and dropped Airport connections after yesterday's updates and asked if anyone else had seen that. (I wrote to ask for more details on his network/setup). I don't own a Time Capsule but have seen no negatives so far from the updates on this AL iMac (10.5.2 w/all updates) and a (gigabit) AE N base (running 5GHz mode currently for best performance w/AL iMac and Apple TV.)
In the past (last couple months) I had seen (a couple times a week perhaps) before this update I'd get a "you are not connected to the internet" error at times (safari during attempt to load a web page - airport signal strength never dropped) - rare but happened once or twice a week for the last month or two... too early to tell if these these updates affected that.

"About Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.0
This update extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2 and iPhoto '08 for the following cameras:
Hasselblad CFV-16, H3D-31, H3D-31II
Leaf Aptus 54S, Aptus 65S
Nikon D60
Olympus E-3
Pentax *ist DL2, *ist DS2
Pentax K100D Super
Sony DSLR-A200, DSLR-A350
For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798.
System Requirements: OS X 10.4.11, OS X 10.5.2"

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