Lacie d2 Drive + Airport Extreme issues

Hi
Just got the AE, trying to hook up a Lacie d2 via USB.
The AE see's the Lacie, and it's default boot login, but that's it. Air Disk can see it, but no volumes to mount. Lacie d2 has the volumn login, which requres a username and password to connect directly to my mbp.
Do i need to format the d2? The d2 drive also has built web admin/server, since it's NAS. I've restarted and reconnected numerous times.
Anyone using this setup?

Not sure about this.
Firstly are you sure the USB is not just an extender, (Does it work via USB with your mac)
If it works with your mac in USB mode, do you have to log on, if it does this may be your problem when you use it as an airdisk, i.e, where would the logon data come from.

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Yes, just do the downgrade to 7.4.1. The support article is the typical nondescript article that neither indicates if it is a bug or not. This is quite irritating since I've been using an Airdisk for TM since Leopard was released (almost 2 years now). Originally you had to do hacks with "defaults" and touching files to get it to work. Then last year one of the firmware updates no longer required any hacks. Now they bust it.
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