Blind External Hard drive - MAD !

Any ideas on the following - pretty please, I am going slightly nuts!....
I'm a professional photographer and travel everywhere with my MacBook Pro 15" - Im running Leopard. I also travel with a LaCie rugged 160 & 80GB external hard drive- just recently - when I return home i have plugged the hard drives into my G5 (also running leopard) and they are not detected!!!! So I cant use my G5 for all the retouching archiving etc etc etc and its sending me crazy.
I've sent the G5 tower into the local Apple store - no fix - I've spoken to Apple support, rebooted, reintstalled Leopard and rest the SMU - still no detection of the hard drives. I've been in to Dic Utilities and the hard drives dont register with either Firewire, or USB
All my other peripherals work - isight camera, card readers, printers etc
This issue started maybe a month ago - in fact I thought the LaCie was at fault and went out and bought another - Just to summarise,,, LaCies work when plugged into the laptop no problem - but do not register on the G5 ??????? By the way, they did up until a month ago ! - I've tried new cables also by the way
Any help - very much appreciated
Cheers

All my other peripherals work - isight camera, card readers, printers etc
So you are saying other FireWire devices work, because those are USB devices (except for the iSight camera)?
You can test the "not enough power" theory by getting a FireWire hub. They provide their own power and, for me, provides a +safety barrier+ between the FireWire device and the FireWire port on my Power Mac G5.
I recently had the front FireWire port on my Power Mac G5 go bad, after unplugging a FireWire drive. It still provided power (my small bus-powered drive spun up), but no data connection. The back ports still worked. Luckily, it was still under AppleCare, so it was fixed at no cost to me (they apparently replaced the small board connected to the front ports).
Now, I use a FireWire hub when I connect devices that I connect and disconnect often, to avoid wear and tear (and whatever problem caused the frying of my front port) on the Mac's built-in FireWire ports. For my self-powered external drive that are connected all the time, I use the Mac's FireWire 800 port directly. I'd rather replace that $25 hub than deal with another repair on the Mac (in a few months I won't have AppleCare).

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