Fire Wire HDD not showing in Desktop

Hi, I am using a maxtor 300GB Firewire HDD, Suddenly it is not showing in my Desk Top, but it is showing in Disk Utility. I am not able to use the disk. I already have valuble data in it. I am only able to eject it from disk utility.
I also want some info on access options on external Hdd like read/write/ no accesses. and locking it.
Power BOOK G4   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   G5

1. Try the instructions in this FAQ.
2. The read and write options control what accounts are able to read and write a specific file or folder; a disk must allow all accounts to read it if it will appear on the desktop of any non-root account. If you want to stop people from accessing the drive, change the permissions on it so that only your account can write to it, and that only your account has any access to the folders inside. Anyone with an administrator password to the computer or physical access to the drive can defeat file permissions used to secure data on it; in this situation, you should use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to create encrypted disk images and store them on the drive.
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