Cone Airport Extreme and disk sharing

I have the older Extreme base station and want to set up a shared disk. I have it set up to share a printer just fine. I added a usb hub to the station and attached the printer and hard drive.
The airport utility does not have a disk sharing section. Is this possible with this model?

An AirPort Extreme base station without 802.11n capability and any AirPort Express will ignore any USB drive connected to it. Sharing the drive from it isn't possible.
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