Having issues with my external hard drive on 6th gen Airport Extreme

I recently upgraded from a 5th gen to a 6th gen AEBS. I'm having several issues with it and my 10.8.4 Macs.
When I try to mount the self-powered external drive, which appeared to work well with the 5th gen, the disk will often become unreachable. Then if I open Airport Utility, it will say that it cannot find the router.
The only way to bring the router back to life is to turn off the drive and unplug it.
I have 7.7.1 on the AEBS as I upgraded to that right away via my phone, but now I cannot seem to downgrade back to 7.7. The only reason I want to try this is because 7.7.1 was supposed to *fix* external drive issues, and maybe it made it worse for me (as I never actually tried 7.7)
Any ideas?

I don't have any experience with hard drives attached, but I can say that I had a different problem with the 7.7.1 firmware update on a brand new Airport Extreme, and was told by Apple tech support that there was no way to download 7.7 to downgrade. My only option was the return the Airport and exchange it for a new one.

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