External Firewire not mounting

Since the quicktime 7.5 updater I have been unable to mount ANY firewire devices. A check of the system profiler shows under firewire,(in red) "Unable to list FireWire devices."
The same external drive when using USB 2.0 connection does indeed mount and work properly suggesting there is now a problem with both FireWire and FW800 connections. Ive tried everything listed in every forum and the issue persists. Since finding this "Warning" in the system profiler Ive decided to post with the hopes others may recognize the same issue and perhaps we can find a solution.
Onward and thanks.

Hi Dennis,
I read your thread with interest because I just installed Leopard X.5.3 on a partition on my iMac G5, and the FW 400 devices that had been working fine were not mounting. I, too, have a Belkin FW "powered" Hub, and I was beginning to think it was bad. I had even gotten the same error in red in System Profiler/Firewire/Firewire device Tree/"Unable to list Firewire Devices".
So as I wrote this note, I'd say 5 minutes after the problem started, the drive (actually a mirrored array of 2 drives) appeared. I have since tried to mount the other drives I have connected to the Belkin Hub, and they wouldn't show. I connected the hub to my other iMac and unforunately 2 of 3 Mirrored Arrays are showing as degraded. Only the 1 "good" array appeared on the Leopard install on the iMac G5.
So I guess I've got to remember to unplug devices when doing a system install? That's must be how these guys got hosed?
YMMV.
So long for now, TOM

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