Finder is not mounting a partition on another drive

Disk utility sees the drive...I can boot to the slave drive just fine...but my clean install of 10.5 on the larger master won't see the little 30gb drive I have as it's slave.
If I boot to the slave it can see the 10.5 drive just fine though.
Any ideas?

How much space do you have on the Air? Most Air users do not have the space to keep a big iTunes Library on the internal drive.
They would still be on one place on the external drive. When you get a new mp3 import into iTunes and it will be saved on the external drive.
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