Will powered hub allow both a external hard drive and printer?

I have a 500g airport purchase in June 2009. I believe apple updated the products shortly afterwards. I am not home so don't have the model number. It has one USB port. Connecting one printer has worked with no problems. I just bought a 1T external hard drive and connected both the drive and printer to a powered hub. The hard drive is discovered by the airport but not the printer. What am I doing wrong?

Have you power cycled your complete network?
If not, power everything down, order is not important. Then start the modem first and let it run a few moments, then start your AirPort Extreme, then your hard drive, printer, and computers one at time, waiting a moment or two between each device.

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