FireWire dead after Leopard installation?

Hello all,
Just upgraded to 10.5.2 and my USB and FireWire ports went dead.
Reset PRAM, which brought back the USB ports.
But, My G-Drive Q is no longer mounted via the FireWire port (after restart of it and the Mac).
Disk Utility doesn't see it either.
"About This Mac-- More Info" shows "unknown device" connected to FireWire.
I see no other postings when searching this forum for "G-drive" or "GDrive".
The G-Technology forums don't have an answer either, as far as I can see, although others seem to have had FireWire/Leopard issues.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Bill
if you search under 'no firewire or missing firewire' you will find lots of people like ourselves who have had issue since installing leopard. I have just installed 10.5.3 on my G4 powerbook in the hope this update would now resolve the problem but it has not. I don't think anyone is listening on this subject and other ideas such as reset pram does not work, or at least has not for me regardless of how many times i have tried. the odd thing is I installed leopard to my G5 desk top with no issues....so if anyone out there has had the same problem with a powerbook and found the answer please let us know.
thanks

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