New Hard Drive can't be mounted

I've just purchased a Buffalo 500GB USB external hard drive. I formatted it, then connected it to the back of the Airport Extreme.
The Airport Disk utility, previously set up for a different HD connected to the base station, appears to see it. But if I choose Network from the sidebar menu and click on the Base station's alias to get the "Select Volumes to Mount" dialog box, the volume itself remains grayed out. Checking in Disk Utility doesn't show it either. It's as if it's very nearly there but not. I feel as if I'm missing some obvious step but as there is just the Airport utility and Airport disk utility, I'm stymied.
Help.

Rebooting the AEBS was decidedly helpful. I do have an alias of the hard drive on the desktop now, but as described above it's still grayed out...maybe it's supposed to be for all I know.
In any case, thanks for the good advice.

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