Airport dropping when i connect Airdisk

I have been using Airport extreme for some time now with a Lacie 1TB drive attached. It had been working fine until the other day.
First my hardrive was flashing. found out the drive was corrupted. So i reformatted using a local connection to my iMac. and when i tried to reattach that is when problems started. My AEBS started rebooting. Went from flashing amber to solid green for about 2 seconds and then rebooted. It is stucked in that mode unless i either turn off airdisk drive or pull USB cord.
any help will be appreciated.

Thanks for the reference article. I will go over it as I have been looking for soemthing like that a while ago without success (even the Apple Support Centre could not give me such a good reference document).
When I located my 2 relays, I used a software that was picking (and measuring the quality of) the different signals as I was moving from one room to another. Basically, the quality of the signal of the 2 remotes was equivalent to the one of the main base station. I thought that was pretty good. Maybe I should redo that with Netspot to check again this a still the case.
As I mentioned, everything worked fine until I incorporated other devices (ATV and Airplay). (Actually, I now remember I had a problem sometimes even without ATV or Airplay connecting my iPhone. I thought then it was a problem with the iPhone and was just restarting my modem to solve it)
I will go over the article you kindly sent me and see if I have missed something.
Thanks again!
Francois

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