Connecting an USB drive is causing the status light to turn yellow on 2013 Airport Extreme

I recently purchased a new Airport Extreme ac to improve wifi performance in my house. It has been working fine. Today I decided that I would try to connect one of my USB backup drives to the Airport Extreme. As soon as it is connected, the status light goes yellow. It appears to be trying to read the drive, which has only a timemachine backup folder on it. But the status light never comes back to green.
Here is the System Information for the USB:
INIC-1610P      :
  Capacity:          500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
  Removable Media:          Yes
  Detachable Drive:          Yes
  BSD Name:          disk1
  Product ID:          0x1e40
  Vendor ID:          0x13fd  (Initio Corporation)
  Version:           1.07
  Serial Number:          0010101E40000000
  Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer:          Initio 
  Location ID:          0xfd130000 / 5
  Current Available (mA):          500
  Current Required (mA):          2
  Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
  Volumes:
disk1s1:
  Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
  BSD Name:          disk1s1
  Content:          EFI
MyBook:
  Capacity:          499.76 GB (499,763,888,128 bytes)
  Available:          162.73 GB (162,727,297,024 bytes)
  Writable:          Yes
  File System:          Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:          disk1s2
  Mount Point:          /Volumes/MyBook
  Content:          Apple_HFS

Well, I unplugged the drive from my laptop and plugged it in to the airport extreme again and this time it stayed green and I now see the drive in the airport utility under partitions. Very odd. Going to try restarting the airport to see if it will go green.

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