Automountd crash - can't see removable drives

Hi,
I have a Power MAC G4 tower running Leopard (v10.5.4). I also have a Western Digital external hard drive (250 GB) attached via firewire that contains my iPhoto Libraries.
Recently, the WD drive does not appear in my Finder window. It is detected by the System Profiler app but not the Disk Utility. I am also having similar issues with a thumb drive via USB.
I have attached the WD drive to a PowerBook G4 notebook (also running 10.5.4) and it sees the drive with no problems.
The tower also has a patch for MobileMe - coincidentally, the WD drive stopped showing up in Finder when I installed this patch. The notebook does not have this patch.
Also, I see in my /Library/Logs/CrashReporter that I have several recent crash file reports from the automounter. The automount crash log seems to appear even with the WD drive powered off during boot of the tower.
Has anybody run into this problem and have some advice on how to see my removable drives again?
Thanks in advance,
-Brenda

Hi bstef,
Something definitely seems wrong with your system. automountd should not be crashing, and based on the description you provide about your external drives, I wouldn't be surprised if other daemons (like diskarbitrationd) are also crashing.
You might want to have a look at your system.log, which you can see in the Console application. In that log you're looking for further clues as to what is causing some of your system processes to crash. It would probably be a good troubleshooting step to open the Console, view the system.log, then try to attach one of your drives that is not showing up. Hopefully you'll be able to see in real time some system errors.

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