External HD doesn't work.

My Mac Mini does not see my Hitachi XL1000 external hard drive.   The drive does not appear in the Time Machine preferences, and even more ominously it does not appear in the list of drives in Disk Utility.
I have been using it to back up two different computers in two different locations.   The drive worked with Time Machine just fine yesterday.   Three things have happened since yesterday, though. First, I may have disconnected the Hitachi from the Mini before the Mini was finished shutting down. Then I used the Hitachi to back up the other computer. (The process has worked properly with both computers in the past, and it worked normally on the second computer last night.) And then the Hitachi fell off a table maybe 2.5 feet to a wooden floor.
This morning when I plug the Hitachi back in----and nothing. I have connected and reconnected the USB cable to two different USB ports on the Mini.   The "Hitachi" name on the front of the drive is lit, so it is getting power.   Someone tell me there's a simple way of getting the Mini to see the Hitachi.

Try a PRAM Reset. Doubtful, but it might work.
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