Error 0:  how did my drive suddenly convert to FAT? & "updating boot..."

I have four external Buffalo external HDs, 1TB each. This evening I was transferring files between them for about an hour when they suddenly stopped and I suddenly got an Error Code 0 message. When I found out what it was I was really surprised. What caused the drives to be recognized as FAT formatted?
I've restarted the computer with no change to the drives.
I reformatted one and now it works fine. I ran Disk Utility on them all and got a message at the end which reads, "Updating boot support partitions for the volume is required", yet they "volumes appear to be okay".
Any ideas on this?

I bought everything a year ago and I really can't remember if I had to reformat them when I plugged them into my system or not but I'd been using them until just an hour before without either of those error messages -- and I've filled up those drives on many different occasions.
What I can't understand is what could happen to make the iMac read that error into them? Is it something to do with the new Snow Leopard? Is there anything I can do besides shuffling the data around and reformatting them?

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