USB Disk rebooting extreme

Just got my extreme - have had the same problems as others with trying to get WDS with an express working - gave up and put it as a client only... but anyway, this is the current problem.
One USB drive is fine to use through USB sharing - mounts, causes no problem. If I connect another drive, either through the others built in USB2 hub, or direct, it does things like reboot the extreme over and over, or lock me out of configuring the extreme, or generally prevents access. Remove it, add the other and its fine. I have got it to come up a couple of times - but its not regular. Its formatted extended journaled as the other are.... just a regular USB2 Nexstar case...
Anyone else seeing similar things?

I've had the same issue with a drive in a nexstar USB2 enclosure. I tried connecting it direct to the airport, as well as via my USB/Firewire hub and getting the same flashing amber.
I've 2 other drives (both different types of Lacie's), and both work perfectly either directly connected to the airport or via the USB hub.
At the moment, my nexstar is out of the loop

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