USB flash drive and Airport Extreme

I got an Airport Extreme, and one of the reasons why is so that I can have a drive attached to the router so that I don't have to leave on a computer for file sharing or go in and boot up the computer when I needed some files. I am using a 16GB USB flash drive at the moment formatted with FAT32 (no mac in the house). I tried to backup some stuff on it, a bunch of smaller files in a folder totalling about 4.3 GB. The base station keeps rebooting itself in the middle of the transfer.
I saw some threads on here that are hinting that Airport Extreme doesn't work well with any type of external storage, whether an actual HDD or a flash drive. Those were somewhat dated. Is there a way to fix this? I'm using the latest firmware.

OK, I feel silly on this one.
After looking for issues with the airport and not finding any and needing a file from my backup drive, I had to connect it up to my PC. That's when I found my solution.
The Drive I had connected had stopped responding. That's why the Airport was not showing it and not allowing connections. I had power cycled the drive a few times while testing, just not long enough. I unplugged the drive for 2 minutes, all cables, then reconnected. After about 5 minutes, the Airport was able to confirm the drive and turned the share back on.
Hope that helps.

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The following Knowledge Base article proves to be a great resource on AirPlay on OS X and provides some good troubleshooting recommendations as well for AirPlay Mirroring:
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