USB Disks Drives that don't show up in AEBS

USB Disks Drives that down show up in AEBS
NOTE: This thread is about drives that are not seen / recognized by the Apple Airport Express Base Station 802.11n (AEBS) when attached to the USB port of the AEBS. Drives that are not seen by the computer, but are seen by the AEBS should go in another thread.
I know some of us are having problems getting out USB hard drives to work with the AEBS. If you launch the airport utility and manage your AEBS but your drive does NOT show up under the disk tab.
I know it’s not a formatting problem so I assume this is a hardware related issue. There has to be a common flaw in out drives
I have a Seagate Momentous 7200.3 installed in a generic USB enclosure. I figure the problem is because of…
1) A Generic Chipset
2) It’s USB Powered (not externally powered)
By going into the System Profiler (Apple • About this Mac • more info) and if I click on the drive name under USB I get the following details
1) It draws 500 mA
2) Transfers 480 Mb/s
3) Product ID 0x6390
4) Vendor ID 0x058f
Right now it’s formatted using a Journaled HFS+ file system
It would be great if other users of the AEBS could report information about any drives that do not show up in the AEBS.
Thanks
Mac mini 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Neither my LaCie 500 Gb or my Crossfire 250 Gb (both externally powered) show up in the AEBSn. Both of them appeared in the AEBSn for a couple of weeks. The only change I can think of is that I upgraded to 10.4.9.
I've done all the resets, but the AEBSn just cannot identify them.
I put a call into AppleCare this evening, but the Level 1 guy knew less than I did. I'm waiting for a callback from AppleCare. If I hear anything I'll put it in the forum.
My guess from the HD/AEBSn problems in the forums here is that there is a bug, which with time our good friends at Apple will iron out.
Shame, because I bought the AEBSn because of Airdisk, but I'm bowled over by its speed and range.

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