ok so i had this problem my airport, was recognizing one of my drives (simpletech) but not the other (maxtor) when connected one at the time both worked sometimes, but after a while maxtor would not show up at all, and dropped signals would occur, airport not being recognized so i went to the genius bar an got it replaced just to see the same problems (this time none of them showed up) with the new airport so i dived in the internet for answers, and to make the story short here is my solution:
the maxtor was the big problem, (i had the most drops of signal and all the problems began when i plugged it) for some reason external hdd on FAT32 have compatibility issues so i went ahead and backed it up, formated to mac os journaled ( which game another problem) now works just fine the airport even lets me use it as time machine, so if you can ( im saying all mac user, sorry pc ) format to journaled (hsf+), and im pretty sure that your problems will go away, now, there is a problem when using disk utility, formating a to journaled will produce an error, dont worry the answer is close ( took me a while to find a forum with the answer) instead of using the erase tab use partition, choose 1 partition and in options change it to GUID, and then it will be formated into journaled, so summary:
back up
format to journaled
in disk utility do it on "partition" and not "erase"
restart your airport, wait until is online (green light and you can access the internet)
connect all your usb drives
enjoy!!
note: some drives does work when formated as FAT32, (my simpletech, is still on FAT32, whilte the maxtor had to be formated to journaled)
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