AIRPORT HARD DISK on EXTREME disonnecting on copying large files...

I bought a new EXTREME with the purpose of hooking up a USB harddrive to share with all my macs; I have successfully copied files as large as 100 MB, but when I try to copy my IPHOTO library (8 gigs) it gives me a disconnect error after about 15 minutes and I have to sign off of the network and sign on again via the AIRPORT icon in the upper right of the screen; I am writing my file from a G5 IMAC and the hard disk I am using is NEWER TECHNOLOGY 500 GB drive. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Ger
Many macs Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I bought a new EXTREME with the purpose of hooking up
a USB harddrive to share with all my macs; I have
successfully copied files as large as 100 MB, but
when I try to copy my IPHOTO library (8 gigs) it
gives me a disconnect error after about 15 minutes
and I have to sign off of the network and sign on
again via the AIRPORT icon in the upper right of the
screen; I am writing my file from a G5 IMAC and the
hard disk I am using is NEWER TECHNOLOGY 500 GB
drive. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Ger
Many macs
Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Same problem - wish I knew the answer.

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