Can't see firewire harddrive on mini 10.4

It all started with the dang cat.   for some feline reason she had to spray a disconnected external maxtor 1 touch firewire harddrive.
I removed it from the external case, cleaned up the cat residue and put it back together. As far as I could tell the cat liquid only was on the case and outside of the harddrive.   One week later I decided to fire it up.
Daisy chained it into another harddrive that is always plugged in to my 10.4 mac mini.
turned it all on.
Started to smell like electical from the cat's harddrive so I pulled the power plug.
Since then I cannot see my external harddrive(s)
after searching in forum I did
SMC reset of unplugging everything,shutting down and holding the power button for 5 seconds while power cable disconnected.
restarting.
Rest Pram got the multiple startup chimes
Profile states that
FireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed:          Up to 400 Mb/sec
I have a mac pro laptop 10.4 also    do I dare plug the harddrive into it to see if ilt works or will I kill my firewire in that too?
phew    this rescue cats are trouble!
Any help suggestions welcome
Thanks in advance
Barry

do I just try dragging out the maxtors and put them in a new enclosure?
Yep, assuming they're SATA Drives.
On my no buy list is any Firewire drive made by any HDD manufacturers, good drives & bad cases, also...
The WD My Books have had far less than glowing reviews for Macs...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1543028
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2191614&tstart=0
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The following external hard drives are bootable on Intel-based Macintosh computers systems through USB:
• My Book Essential Edition
• My Book Essential Edition 2.0
• My Book Home Edition
• My Book Mirror Edition
• My Book Office Edition
• My Book Premium Edition
• My Book Premium Edition II
• My Book Premium ES Edition
• My Book Pro Edition
• My Book Pro Edition II
• My Book Studio Edition
• My Book Studio Edition II
• My Passport Studio
The following external hard drives are bootable on Intel-based Macintosh computers systems through FireWire (1394a/b):
• My Book Home Edition
• My Book Mirror Edition
• My Book Office Edition
• My Book Premium Edition
• My Book Premium Edition II
• My Book Pro Edition
• My Book Pro Edition II
• My Book Studio Edition
• My Book Studio Edition II
• My Passport Studio
The following external hard drives are bootable on Power PC based Macintosh computers systems through FireWire (1394a/b):
• WD My Book Premium Edition
• WD My Book Pro Edition
The following external hard drives are not bootable on Power PC based Macintosh computers systems through USB/FireWire 1394(a/b):
• My Book Essential Edition
• My Book Essential Edition 2.0
• My Book Home Edition
• My Book Mirror Edition
• My Book Office Edition
• My Book Premium Edition II
• My Book Pro Edition II
• My Book Studio Edition
• My Book Studio Edition II
• My Passport Studio
• My Passport Elite
• My Passport Essential
• WD Passport
• WD Passport (Silver)

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