Help needed: AEBSn won't recognize Lacie Ethernet Mini 320

Question

I've searched this forum for help and haven't found anything on point so I'm posting my own request.
I've got the new Base Station hooked up via ethernet to a Lacie 320G Ethernet Mini drive. The Lacie Configurator does not work (no disk shows up to be administered), I can't get to the Lacie admin page via browser and the drive doesn't show up in Airport Disk Utility.
The drive also did not show up when connected via USB to my MacBook. I was, however, able to get the "share" network drive to show up and to copy a test Word document to it. I could not use Disk Utility on it, though. It didn't show up in that program's window of available drives. FWIW, the drive did show up in the System Profiler.
My reading of some of the posts here suggest that the drive may need to be reformatted (w/o journaling) if it doesn't show up on the desktop. Unfortunately, I can't begin to administer the disk, let alone reformat it. Lacie's site is devoid of any information bearing on this issue.
I'd appreciate any assistance. I've pulled out most of my hair already trying to understand what I've done wrong.
Thanks.
iMac 2Ghz/20: 2GigsRAM   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  
iMac 2Ghz/20   Mac OS X (10.4.1)  
iMac 2Ghz/20   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Answer 1

This is the last post I'm going to make about this.
While you might be right about the HD itself, I am
labeling the HD as "USB" or "Firewire" based simply
on what its interface IS--as the original poster did,
as the salesman who sold the 2 different HDs to me
did, as the common
non-techno-geek-who-knows-jack-squat-about-what's-insi
de-the-housing would do--which is the only thing that
really matters to the layman who is trying to plug a
HD into his AEBS and is wondering why it doesn't
work.
And actually, now that I've read back through your
last post: It's not correct either. You're talking
about "interfaces" but what your inane,
self-righteous previous answer misses the boat on is
exactly, again, what I've been trying to point out:
The LaCie hard drive we're talking about has Firewire
ports and USB ports but THE FIREWIRE PORT IS THE
INTERFACE BETWEEN THE HARD DRIVE AND THE COMPUTER THE
USB PORTS ARE *NOT**. The USB ports CAN be an
interface--between the computer and whatever devices
you plug into them, but in this case those USB ports
do NOT let the hard drive interact with the
computer.
I see you have 210 posts on these forums since your
registration in March--I hope your others weren't
able to cause anymore confusion than your posts to
this guy's question might have.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Airport Extreme w/ USB Hub Sharing (against my
will) w/ PC laptop, and still trying to find a
HD
Dude, you should stop posting, if you do not know what you are talking about. Here are a few quotes from your postings:
the key is that it's an ETHERNET-connected hard drive, and it has to actually be a USB-CONNECTED hard drive.
False.
because the USB ports are just a USB hub that's thrown on top of the Firewire HD.
False.
non-techno-geek-who-knows-jack-squat-about-what's-inside-the-housing
Exactly. I rest my case. When you don't know what you are talking about, you end up giving out false information that ends up confusing people even more.