External  disk not mounting any more

Help me please! I am so tired of not having my external LaCie drive mount anymore. It worked fine under 10.5.8 and even 10.6. But for the past several months at start-up the little blue light just flashed and I can hear the drive "chugging" away.Finally, after 5 or so minutes, the volumes mount. Most of the time I could get it to mount by removing the power plug and re-insterting. But now even this doesn't work. This is my Time Machine disk! What is heavens name is going on????

It sounds like a failing drive. I would call LaCie support, they're very good.
Short of that I can give you a command to mount it as a workaround - if it works.
Launch/Utilities/Terminal and enter this command at the prompt:diskutil listPress return. Note the number of the disk (far left column) you want to unmount.
Then, enter this command:mount /dev/(number of disk) /dev/ (the number of the disk)
Good luck.
-mj
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