EA6200 compatible HFS+ external hard drive?

Hello,
I have a macbook pro and I recently got an EA6200 router. It has a usb port and I want to plug in an external hard drive and be able to access it on my home wireless network. I plugged in a 1TB seagate drive into and it crashes the router every time. This linksys website discusses external hard drive compatibility:
http://kb.linksys.com/Linksys/GetArticle.aspx?docid=0868d4e24a6a468280c3cf270c1d6a31_21517.xml&pid=1...
But there are none listed for the EA6200. For the EA4500 only 2 external hard drives are compatible for HFS+, but they are small thumb drives. I'd like at least a 1 terabyte drive. Anybody have any ideas? Thank you!
stu

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