Network Disk / Air Disk Issues

After recently upgrading the external hard drives at my workstation, I decided to try and use one of my Maxtor 5000DV drives as a networked drive - plugged into my AirPort base station.
I'm a guy who has used the Mac since it's inception in 1984 - one reason being that stuff "just works."
Of course, as we all know, that's not necessarily true. Some features, especially new ones, just DON'T. It's almost as if we're just beta testing stuff for Apple. If they can make it work over time, then they finally evolve it into something great, and if they cannot, it simply vanishes never to be mentioned again.
I feel that's where I am with this feature of AirPort.
I have called SIX different manufacturers of external hard drives. NOT ONE will tell me their product does or does not work when connecting to AirPort. What they will say is that it "should" work, and that they do not warranty it will work because the drives are not intended to be used in this manner.
(1) My networked drive just disappears. I cannot reconnect to it unless I go into the sharing tab for the disk in APU, turn off sharing, reset, then go back in and turn it back on. Then the disk will be available, for a while. But it is not stable and always stops working at some point. I guess Apple forgot to mention instability issues when using this feature as a selling point for the product.
(2) If not all drives are going to work, then shouldn't there be a list of compatible drives out there? If Apple understands the engineering of this product, then they should know what makes a hard drive compatible, or they should offer their own solution.
I would appreciated any assistance that anyone can offer on this subject. I really need to make this work.

If that's why TM is not supported, then it must be a serious technical issue. However, the product remains "current", and is still being sold with the stated USB Drive feature-set. If it's that serious, then the USB Drive claims should be pulled, or at least Apple should provide a complete list of verified Hard-Drives that *fully support* that feature.
I believe this is exactly why someone in another post stated that he "felt like he was a beta-product tester for Apple." A very unusual claim, in my personal experience at least-- but one that should still be treated with integrity and compassion by Apple.
There's an awful lot of AEBS users out there!

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fouiiin wrote:
I just bought a WD network disk to put all my photos. I wish to look at them with apple TV but can't find how. The only thing I see is what shared in my laptop Itune. Can't I just acces the content on network device without going through Itune?
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