Airport Express (n) does not reconnect USB drives after reset

I've looked high and low for an answer to this but haven't found anything. I have a USB drive connected to my Airport Express (n). My router "recovers" itself fairly often, probably because of an unreliable DSL link. Once the router has recovered from the dropped outside connection, the attached USB drive no longer appears as shared. I have to go unplug the drive, then plug it in again to make it active. Is this really the expected behaviour? If a drive (or printer?) is attached when the router resets, shouldn't it find and mount the attached device again? Is there setting to control this behaviour?

The AirPort Express base station is only 802.11b/g.
The square AirPort Extreme base station is 802.11b/g/n.

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