All of a sudden - My Hard drive is missing?

My hard drive is no longer showing up when hooked to the extreme. I got it about a week ago and everything was just fine. I have had the hard drive shut down for several days and now it won't show up??
When I connect it directly, it works. The box in "Automatically Discover Airport Disk" IS checked. I have started and restarted. Plugged and unplugged.
Are there any other suggestions?
If I click on Airport Utility I can see where it shows my Lacie as a storage device conected to my base station.
Thank you!

Didn't do it....I see where people have had this issue, but they all seem to get it back! I can't!
If I unplug the USB from the AX and then in to my Macbook, up pops the Lacie. Plug it back in to the AX and nothing.
I've tried restarting everything as if I just brought the Lacie home.
Please, anyone else with a suggestion? Lacie won't help because it works when directly connected. Says it has to be an Apple issue.
Thank you very much!

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