Accessing Lacie USB drive from Time Capsule

I have recently purchased a time capsule. I would like to transfer the contents of a LaCie 750G USB HD to the TC. I've plugged it into the USB connector of TC, and Disk Utility sees another HD (In Airport Utility, under 'Disks' it sees the USB drive as a Hitachi HDT721075SLA380). However, I cannot see this disk when accessing TC through Finder on my MacBook.
Is there an easy way to copy the contents of the LaCie to the TC?

Couple of thoughts:
The Time Capsule's USB port would be a lot happier to see a drive format of Mac OS Extended (Journaled), although FAT 32 may work if you don't exceed a 4 GB file size.
Although the message says it will take 7 hours, did you actually make a copy to confirm this? If you did not, the only way to will know if it will really take that long is to make the copy. It could be much less.
If you don't already have any valuable data on the disk, I would suggest that you re-format it using MAC OS Extended (Journaled). Might also be a good idea to Verify Disk and Repair Permissions if indicated using Disk Utility.

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