How can I get an external (FW 800) hard drive to mount in OS X Lion

I have a FW 800 external drive connected to my iMac (24" Early 2008, 3.06 GHz, Core 2 Duo). This morning I unmounted it so I could unplug it from power and do some cleaning (canned air). When I plugged it back in and connected it again it does not remount. It doesn't show up in Finder or on the desktop. This is my Time Machine backup drive.
sgtbill

Try to mount it with Disk Utility. Usually, this works. Be careful to configure DU to show up all of possible drives first!

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