Setting up an external hard drive via USB

Hi
I'm trying to set up my Iomega 500GB external hard drive to be accessible over my Time Capsule network. The Time Capsule is working properly, with full network connectivity. The Iomega hard drive works very well when connected via USB to my MacBook Air. However, as I understand it, I should be able to simply plug the hard drive into the Time Capsule via USB and it should then just appear under Time Capsule in shared devices. It is not doing this, nor is it being recognised as a connected disk in Airport Utility.
I'm working with Lion, Airport Utility 6.0 and version 7.6.1 on my Time Capsule. The hard drive is formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). There's currently about 99GB of data on the Iomega I'm trying to connect.
Does anybody have any advice or suggestions?
Thanks

With the new Airport 6.0, I cannot manual setup the TC and the external drive is not an option.
Suggest that you download and install the much more functional AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion, which released on the same day as AirPort Utility 6.0.
You can always move "normal" files that are on the TC to another drive by using the Finder. Open up the Time Capsule drive and drag and drop the files that you want to the external hard drive.

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