AEBS and SeaGate FreeAgent

Hi All,
I have an Airport Extreme FW 7.4.2. I was trying to attach a SeaGate FreeAgent 1.5 TB external drive to the thing. First I had two partitions and it only saw one. (Amber light) SO I repartitioned it to only one large partition and now I get nothing but amber light and "disk needs repair. It all work fine attached to the imac. What gives?
-mark

How is the drive formatted? For best performance, you will want it formatted HFS+.

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