Library on external drive connected to Extreme router

My question is about using an external drive as the library and connecting it directly to the USB port on my Apple Extreme Base Station. The drive (LaCie 500GB) does nto show up and I don't seem to be able to connect to it. Any suggestions? And if I can be configured to be viewed, can Apple TV play movies frm the drive while connected directly to the router?

Firstly there is some doubt that the content will take the routes you suggest, clearly when used as an external disk, the path will be:
Ext Disk > Mac > Airport > tv
but there are many that believe the path from the airdisk will be:
Airdisk > Airport > Mac > Airport > tv and not Airdisk > Airport > tv
I have my doubts about this but it actually doesn't make too much difference for comparative purposes.
Secondly, I actually doubt there is an enormous difference between the data transfer rates to the tv from an airdisk on one hand and an ext disk on the other, since the whole transfer issue is likely limited by the speed at which the tv can handle the data anyway, although both are theoretically capable of meeting the 5 Mbps specification for sustained video playback on the tv. However out of the two systems my money would be on the ext disk every time.
Finally the point I was really making was that putting content onto an ext disk would be significantly quicker than putting the same content on an airdisk. To put this into numbers take a 1 hour movie encoded at 5 Mbps. I would expect you to be able to transfer this from your mac to an airdisk in around 20 minutes, I would expect it to take around 1 minute on an ext drive.

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