G-Drive and Airport recent problems

About every hour or so the drive that is connected to my airport will automatically wind down. This occurrence started to happen shortly after the system was updated to 7.4.2.
I have isolated the G-Drive and had no problems with it running alone.
Is there a way to stop this from happening without resetting the system?
Thanks--R

I'm having the same issue. My 2 G-Drives were working and then all of a sudden stopped when connected to the AE. Works just fine when connected directly to the MBP.
Has anyone found a fix for this? Really quite annoying.

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