Can't see airport HDs in finder

Hi,
I've got an airport extreme base station with 2x USB hard drives and a USB printer attached. For some reason the HDs only appear every now and again in finder. A similar thing happens in windows as well, but the disks appear, but then half way through browsing through the discs it will suddenly lose the connection or I will get an empty folder.
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?
Thanks
Chris

hotpurple wrote:
I've got an airport extreme base station with 2x USB hard drives and a USB printer attached. For some reason the HDs only appear every now and again in finder. A similar thing happens in windows as well, but the disks appear, but then half way through browsing through the discs it will suddenly lose the connection or I will get an empty folder.
Are your disk drives and USB hub powered by an external power source?

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