Finder doesn't like showing one of my external hard disks

I have seen a few threads about on the internet relating to this but no permanent solution.
I recently bought an iomega 500gb MiniMax drive for use with my MacBook, it was working fine and showing in finder for a day or so and then stopped automatically showing up in finder unless I tweak about with it through the following method (HD is called FatBoy):
sudo chflags nohidden /Volumes/FatBoy/
then I have to reset finder using an apple script:
tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 1
tell application "Finder" to launch
Even then it won't stay there permanently... I am also wondering if the @ symbol below is important as it doesn't show up for other correctly behaving external hard disks...?
ls -l /Volumes/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x@ 13 ndrew staff 510 3 Jan 15:46 FatBoy
Also if this doesn't work I have to remount the disk inside Disk Utility - but this only works after the above steps.
Thanks in advance

Apple has had bug reports on the invisiblity plague for at least two years now. However, since it has actually gotten worse in Leopard than it was in Tiger I rather doubt they have a solution. Obviously, given the bug reports, they are working on it.
The "@" just means the item in question has extended attributes. In my case ALL the volumes have an @, perhaps because they all have custom icons.
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