Finder freeze - firewire hard-drive?

after upgrading to 10.4.10 I ran into a sticky issue. finder freezes every so often. what it is trying to do is to access my external firewire drive. it doesn't respond. but...all I need to do is to unplug the firewire connection to the computer, re-attach, and the drive is now recognized. any idea what is happening and how to solve? things we fine with 10.4.9

Hello,
Your Finder is freezing? Try this. Locate this file: com.apple.finder.plist
It's HERE: /Home/Library/Preferences. Open the Preferences folder, locate that file and drag it to the Trash. Reboot. Your Mac will create a new preference file for you.
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Sure firewire is plug and play
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for whatever reason
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This my firewire HD does not like.
I have not had much success with my HD
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Never thought of it as care and feeding.
I use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up my entire HDD to my LaCie FW HDD. It is set up as a boot drive in CCC so I can boot from it if I need to.
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Thanks.

Hi, oops, I have more than 1 mac & I apologize for assuming you are a multiple mac owner..
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