Fire Wire Drive not listed Device

There have been several similar unresolved related posts. So I'll launch in to this anew.
Powered up the Mac this evening, and my two external F/W drives did not appear on the desk top. They did not appear in the Device menu. All Cables and Power connections are correct. No recent changes Hardware of Software.
They do appear as Mounted drives when checked with Disk Utility. They Verify on problem.
The Drives seem to have been set to "Hidden" and I can not make them go back to normal. I was able to create an alias via the Finder/go/folders/volumes. But I don't want an Alias, I want my drives set back to normal.
What should I try folks?
Thanks,
Rod

Little Disk wrote:
There have been several similar unresolved related posts. So I'll launch in to this anew.
Powered up the Mac this evening, and my two external F/W drives did not appear on the desk top. They did not appear in the Device menu. All Cables and Power connections are correct. No recent changes Hardware of Software.
They do appear as Mounted drives when checked with Disk Utility. They Verify on problem.
The Drives seem to have been set to "Hidden" and I can not make them go back to normal. I was able to create an alias via the Finder/go/folders/volumes. But I don't want an Alias, I want my drives set back to normal.
What should I try folks?
Thanks,
Rod
Do you have "Show disks" switched off in the Finder Preferences?

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