My Airport disconnects randomly when USB disk is attached..HELP NEEDED !!!!

My Airport Extreme disconnects randomly when USB disk is attached, I have searched this forum but found now obvious solution.
The Airport Extreme has the latest firmware.
Since the airdisk solution is quite useless at this time, I would kindly accept any kind of help .....thanks
Sieber

Len61 got my reply, I have copied below.
Hi - I have been on the phone with support 4X since late December - all good calls. They have been scratching their heads on this issue.
I have 2 printers and 2 drives on the airport -recent experieinces = printers have always behaved, drives have appeared / vanished / "drive needs repair" and it's just fine...
Cutting out the interim fixes, here are the simple but important solutions and everything has been stable for days now.
* rolled back to AEBS firmware 7.1.1
* replaced the passive USB hub with a powered hub ** This is when joy arrived
* make sure your drive has a block size of 512
You can run guest mode however you want, since adding the new hub, it hasn't mattered.
I haven't been brave enough to upgrade firmware to 7.2.1
cheers

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Disk: /dev/rdisk5          geometry: 243201/255/63 [3907029167 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
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1: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         2 - 3907029165] HFS+
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
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2,-387938131,0xAF,-,1023,254,63,1023,254,63
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0
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partition table automatically reloaded!
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c          load backup partition table from disk (rebuilding main)
d          use main GPT header (rebuilding backup)
e          load main partition table from disk (rebuilding backup)
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q          quit without saving changes
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x          extra functionality (experts only)
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   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2
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   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         799.3 GB   disk1s2
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The result I get when I attempt to verify the disk is rather annoying given that I pretty much had assumed it did not contain any GPT scheme:
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   Device Node:              /dev/disk5
   Part of Whole:            disk5
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   Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)
   File System:              None
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   Protocol:                 USB
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   Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no file system)
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   Whole:                    Yes
   Internal:                 No
   OS 9 Drivers:             No
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   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended
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   Ejectable:                Yes
   Whole:                    No
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Message was edited by: marc.garcia. Added "diskutil info" output.

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