Reboot Necessary for Airport Disk after Sleep

Anytime one of the computers on the network sleeps, it loses its conneection with the Airport Disk (250GB LaCie), Although the disk appears in the Menu bar icon, attempting to re-connect generates an error message about bad ID and/or Log-in disabled.
Sometimes this is resolved by rebooting the machine, other times by rebooting the AEBS.
I suspect I'm not the only one, but I wonder if Apple is aware of yet another flaw in the new AEBS.

I'm not aware that you can configure them to spin down. However this might be a good point.
Not that you can't configure them, but that I am not aware. I need around 5 Tb of storage for my home movies and back ups. This has not changed for some considerable time. Although my collection continues to grow, keeping mpeg4's instead of mpeg2's has saved me space. Not wanting to stray too far from the point, the point I am trying to make is I haven't bought any external storage for 2 or 3 years due to reliability, which may comfort you preceeding a LaCie purchase.
The drive I have attached as an airdisk is one that was freed up by the process I have told you about and is therefore quite old. it is a 500 Gb Triple interface (USB/FW/FW800). It does its job but does become disconnected from the extreme at semi regular intervals.
Personally I think this is because it is actually 2 x 250 Gb drives in one enclosure controlled by a RAID chipset. Apple does have info dotted about that says RAID's don't work. Pesrsonally I think it depends a lot on what level RAID, I think some won't work, some will and some have intermittent problems (I think mine is the later)

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What's weird is, in Keychain Access, the airport
password is marked as 'Confirm before allowing
access'. I tried to change this so it wouldn't do
that, but it will not accept my keychain password! (I
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