Issue with hard drive showing up in Finder/Desktop

I have a Fantom Drive 1Tb that is hooked up through firewire 800. The unit used to mount fine, but all of a sudden it stopped showing up in the finder and on the desktop. I can find it through a spotlight search of items on it, and it shows up in disk utility without a problem. It is formatted Mac OS Extended. When I locate it through finder, it shows up in finder via column view, but is greyed out. the instant i close all finder windows, I have to go through and search again. I clicked "get info" and unlocked it, and ignored ownership, but it doesn't matter, i cannot get it to show up and stay in finder or anything.
This is driving me nuts

normally you'd have to put quotation marks in both commands. They are needed to interpret special characters and spaces in drive name correctly. However, since your drive doesn't have any of those in its name you can actually dispense with quotation marks and simply use
sudo xattr -d com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment /volumes/music
and
sudo chflags nohidden /volumes/music

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