Desktop does not show external Fire Wire Drive Buslink model MFW60

Running iMac fully maxed out. Have Buslink FireWire external drive, model MFW60 1394a. Purchased an adaoter plag in to connect through new Fire Wire port in back of machine. Got the drive to spin up and showed up on desktop. Tried to move a file from IMac to the Buslink and the whole system locked up. Only choice was to turn off everything . After rebooting, no Buslink showed up on the desktop. Disk utility sees it but each time I try to repair disk or even verify the disk utility is "not responding" and I am forced into" Force quit " to stop the disk utility rtask. I do have a Fire WIre USB 2 T backup external which is working fine.
Any ideas or help on getting the buslink to show up on desk top?

On the off chance, turn off Time Mschine, & add thst drive to silly Spotlight's Privacy pane.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts (Users & Groups in later OSX versions)>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

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