Find not working on large external drive

I have several external HDD attached using a FireWire daisychain including a new(ish) 500GB LaCie. When I use the Finder>File>Find function it only finds copies on the main drive and the older externals (not the laCie). Any ideas what's up?
LaCie D2 Quadra 500GB
Mount Point : /Volumes/LaCie
Capacity : 465.8 GB (500,107,452,416 Bytes)
Format : Mac OS Extended
Available : 17.4 GB (18,667,208,704 Bytes)
Owners Enabled : No
Used : 448.4 GB (481,440,243,712 Bytes)
Number of Folders : 149,468 Number of Files : 1,027,174
The drive is at the end of the daisychain (has to be because it only has 1 Firewire 400 port).
Disk Utility reports the drive as OK. Get info shows I have read/write permissions.

paul_brown wrote:
Yes - it's been fully reindexed (using the method you describe) - this incidentally made several items that used to be 'found' disappear.
Do you mean it was finding some items on that drive, or items that were found on other drives?
I'm not sure what the issue with Find is on that drive only but I can recommend EasyFind. In fact, I prefer it.
(and my MacBook Pro doesn't have a Firewire 800 port!)
My bad eyes, I read it as MacPro...
-mj

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