Cannot see OS Extended-formatted drive on Airport Extreme in Finder

*EDIT: solved

I just purchased two 500GB USB hard drives and am attempting to connect them to my AirPort Extreme Base Station. They are connected to the USB port of the AEBS via a powered USB hub.
When I turn them both on, the base station goes into a restart loop. That is, it continually restarts until I power off both drives. If I turn on just one drive, it doesn't reboot itself until I attempt to connect to the hard drive via the Finder, or the AirPort Disk Utility menu. It then goes into the restart loop.
I have just run the 7.1 update for the AEBS, and had this problem before and after the update. My problem seems to be different than most on these forums, but I'm hoping the solution is similar.
MacPro   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

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