Can not find USB Hard Drive with Airport Utility Programme

I am quite new to MAC and I am having difficulty making my Iomega External HD seen by the Airport Extreme Base Station (new version). I have the latest Aiport Utility software 5.2.1 but when I go to the hard drive section it does not see it. The drive is connected via USB. Can anyone help me please.

Hi, this could be caused if the hard drive isn't in the right file system. To make it work, it needs to be formatted in a 'MAC OSX EXTENDED' format. You can do this in Disk Utility if you connect the drive directly to the computer and go to applications/utilities/disk utility.
Another question that may be asked this external hard drive, does it have its own power supply? If it does it should be ok, but some small portable thieves power which the router probably wont provide. If this is the case you can sort it by getting a powered USB hub (which don't cost much).
Another issue you might come across was a bug I found if you give the Hard Drive a name and connect it to the router and it appears and the next time you unplug the router power and connect it again it sees it but you cant connect to it on any computer over the network, the hard drive name needs changing every time you unplug the router, its a silly bug but im glad I finally worked it out.
Also, Airport Utility has a new software update, so have a look for it, should be 7.2.1 now!
Let me know how you get on!

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     at oracle.sdovis.LoadThemeData.run(LoadThemeData.java:75)
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Description:
     at oracle.sdovis.theme.GeoRasterThemeProducer.prepareData(GeoRasterThemeProducer.java:1109)
     at oracle.sdovis.GeoRasterTheme.prepareData(GeoRasterTheme.java:95)
     at oracle.sdovis.LoadThemeData.run(LoadThemeData.java:75)
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Hi Joao,
Thanks so far.
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RAS_DGK|
null|
RAS_DGK|
GEORASTER|
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<styling_rules theme_type="georaster">
</styling_rules>|
(GeoRaster table name is "RAS_DGK", theme name is also "RAS_DGK")
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20.11.2008 10:17:27 oracle.sdovis.LoadThemeData run
FEINER: LoadThemeData running thread: Thread-43
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FEINER: Original query window: -Infinity,-Infinity,NaN,NaN
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FEINER: Fetch size: 100
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SCHWERWIEGEND: Exception fetching data for theme RAS_DGK.
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If I run the sql statement in the log file, it returns a result.
select grt.georid, grt.GEORASTER, grt.GEORASTER.metadata.getClobVal()
from ras_dgk grt
WHERE MDSYS.SDO_FILTER(grt.GEORASTER.spatialextent,
MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003, 31466, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1, 1003, 3),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(2550045.7746478873,5608500.0,2551954.2253521127,5609500.0)), 'querytype=WINDOW') = 'TRUE';
GEORID
2
GEORASTER
MDSYS.SDO_GEORASTER(20001,MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003,31466,null,MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1003,3),MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(2550000,5608000,2552000,5610000)),RDT_RAS_DGK,522,oracle.xdb.XMLType@194a7ec)
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<georasterMetadata xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/spatial/georaster">
<objectInfo>
<rasterType>20001</rasterType>
<isBlank>false</isBlank>
<defaultRed>1</defaultRed>
<defaultGreen>1</defaultGreen>
<defaultBlue>1</defaultBlue>
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<rasterInfo>
<cellRepresentation>UNDEFINED</cellRepresentation>
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<totalDimensions>2</totalDimensions>
<dimensionSize type="ROW">
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<dimensionSize type="COLUMN">
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<column>0</column>
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<totalColumnBlocks>4</totalColumnBlocks>
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<columnBlockSize>2048</columnBlockSize>
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<maxLevel>6</maxLevel>
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<compression>
<type>NONE</type>
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<spatialReferenceInfo>
<isReferenced>true</isReferenced>
<SRID>31466</SRID>
<modelCoordinateLocation>UPPERLEFT</modelCoordinateLocation>
<modelType>FunctionalFitting</modelType>
<polynomialModel rowOff="0" columnOff="0" xOff="0" yOff="0" zOff="0" rowScale="1" columnScale="1" xScale="1" yScale="1" zScale="1">
<pPolynomial pType="1" nVars="2" order="1" nCoefficients="3">
<polynomialCoefficients>17668678.695368 0 -3.14949718277477</polynomialCoefficients>
</pPolynomial>
<qPolynomial pType="1" nVars="0" order="0" nCoefficients="1">
<polynomialCoefficients>1</polynomialCoefficients>
</qPolynomial>
<rPolynomial pType="1" nVars="2" order="1" nCoefficients="3">
<polynomialCoefficients>-8031218.31607409 3.14949718277477 0</polynomialCoefficients>
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<sPolynomial pType="1" nVars="0" order="0" nCoefficients="1">
<polynomialCoefficients>1</polynomialCoefficients>
</sPolynomial>
</polynomialModel>
</spatialReferenceInfo>
<layerInfo>
<layerDimension>BAND</layerDimension>
<subLayer>
<layerNumber>1</layerNumber>
<layerDimensionOrdinate>0</layerDimensionOrdinate>
<layerID>1</layerID>
<colorMap>
<colors>
<cell value="0" blue="255" red="255" green="255" alpha="255"/>
<cell value="1" blue="0" red="0" green="0" alpha="255"/>
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</colorMap>
</subLayer>
</layerInfo>
</georasterMetadata>
I checked also the content of rdt table and it contains entries with that raster id (= 522).
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Description:
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