Seagate drive no longer found on Time Capsule

I've been doing my Time Machine back ups to a USB Seagate drive that is attached to my Time Capsule for over 7 months now.  Everything was formatted correctly  from the start and had been working great. Until yesterday when I got an alert from Time Machine saying I was over due for a back up.  I went through Finder to my Time Capsule and couldn't find the Seagate icon.  I thought that was weird and restarted my Time Capsule and MBP. Still no luck and I even went and restored my Time Capsule to factory settings and it still will not read that the Seagate drive that is plugged into the USB port. Any help or advice on the issue???
Thanks,
Steven

Plug the seagate into the computer and run disk utility on it.. how is it going??

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