External drive on desktop, but not disk utilty??

I just got a new Lacie mini hub to use with my macbook. In looking around as to how to reconnect after I eject it I noticed that it "should" appear in my disk utility. That way I can just hit "mount". Well, it's not there!
Now it does show up find on my desktop just fine.
I have the Lacie connected to my new extreme, not directly to the computer. Surely this isn't the issue??
Help please!

Let me bring this back to the top. Was really hoping to find out what to do about this.
Thanks!

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