Harddrive won't mount!!!

I have been reading these forums for several days and trying everywhich way to mount my harddrive. I am using the airport extreme base station and I have usb connected with a Wd My Book hard drive and a hp printer connected to the hub. th printer works great. the drive is the problem
The drive is recognized in the airport utilty, but is not recognized in the finder or the airdisk utilty. I have tried the afp://ipaddress/name of drive and i am propmted with my password but the drive fails to mount.
i have tried several of the suggestions to no avail. is there word of a fix or does anyone have anyother recomendations?

it's connected to my g5...
That's what I thought.
You have posted in the wrong discussion area. This area is for discussing the 802.11b/g/n AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) and wireless networking.
This thread is discussing using a USB hard drive connected to the AEBS.
You should post your question in the G5 discussion area or the Mac OS X discussion area.

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