External USB HDs Sort Of Showing Up In Finder

I have two external USB hard drives, one from Seagate, the other (newer one) from Maxtor. Under Mac OS X 10.4, I had no trouble with these drives. They showed up on the Desktop and on the Finder.
Under 10.5 (10.5.1 specifically, though this existed on 10.5.0 too) I only see the new Maxtor drive on my Desktop and in the Finder sidebar. The Seagate drive is still accessible, but I have to navigate to my computer's root, then go to the Volumes folder and open it.
All the appropriate boxes are checked in the Finder's preferences. Again, one of the drives does show up.
Interestingly, and likely related, the drive that does show up is formatted as Mac OS X (extended journalling) and the one that does not show up in Finder (the one I have to access only through /Volumes) is FAT32 formatted.
I would try and reformat the FAT32 to see if this solves the problem but I don't have space to move the entire external hard drive over somewhere else while I reformat it.
I saw that this issue has come up on the forum before. Were any solutions found?
I'll update this post when 10.5.2 comes out if it fixes my issue.

Do they appear in Disk Utility? If not, try all USB ports and test them on another Mac. They may be faulty.
Ciao.

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