Problems with AEBS recognising MAC OS Extended USB hard drive

I've just bought the AEBS(n) and connected a hard drive via the usb port. Everything works fine - however when I get info it shows that the format is Appleshare! The hard drive is actually formatted as a MAC OS Extended (journaled) as this is confirmed if I connect the drive directly to my iMac.
Although this may not seem to be a problem as I can read and write to the disk, if I use iMovie it does not recognise the disk and therefore not show my iMovie events, even though there are on the drive and states that i must have a MAC OS extended drive.
I don't know how to ensure that AEBS shows the correct format of the drive so I won't have this problem?
The other thing is that when I use the Aiport Disk Utility it does not show the name of my hard drive in the window, instead the name of the AEBS shows!!??

I think there are a number of problems with the AEBS USB disk support.
- I have a 1 GB flash drive (solid state) that works fine on the AEBS.
- however I also have a 75 GB 2.5 inch Hitachi external USB drive that works fine on all my macs but can not connect to the AEBS. After talking to Apple there seems to be a list of 'supported drives' for AEBS USB drives but I've never seen it and nobody at Apple has it (or at least could send it to me).
- my AEBS has crashed several times when I hook up the Hitachi drive, forcing me to attach the drive to a mac and run disk utility for a disk repair (I guess the AEBS has no disk repair function).
- and it is slooowwww ....
- if you use a USB hub there seems to be a lot more issues -- especially if the hub is USB 1.1 and not USB 2.0.
maybe there will be a firmware update. I know I have filed Radar problems on all these issues....

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