Cant seem to get a seagate external drive to show up in finder when on the

cant seem to get a seagate external drive to show up in finder when on the airport extreme base station. ver 7.5 using 10.6.2 any special setting to show it up in finder?

I tested a FAT 32 drive and it will show up.
Open your Hard Drive and look for your AirPort Extreme under the SHARED heading
Click the AirPort Extreme icon and then click Connect As at the upper right of the window
Your drive should appear
If not, click anywhere on your open desktop so that the Finder menus appear at the top of the screen
Click Finder, then click Preferences, then click the General tab
Under the heading of "Show these items on the desktop", make sure there is a check mark next to "Connected Servers"

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