Firewire drives all gone?

would love any info that might help.
i have three 250gb firewire drives dasiychained to my computer, and today i changed my ownership and permissions so that other users on the computer could not access those drives. i then restarted after installing the new java update, and none of the firewire drives will mount to the desktop. they're all there in disk utility and i can mount/unmount and eject them, hearing them spinning up and down as they should, so i know they're not physically damaged, but why cant i see them anymore?

You wrote: "everytime i tried to change anything it gave me an error code -60002, which i cant find any documentation on"That's a rare error code. A Google search finds exactly two references, both to the same post on another forum and without a solution.
I suspect you can't fix this while logged in as root because the immutable flag is set on the drives. If you log in as root and look at the Get Info window for the drives in question, suspect "Locked" will be checked in the top (General) panel and you can't change that. Correct?
You're going to have to start up in start up in single user mode to fix this. I'm trying to put together some instructions for you but it would first help to know how the system is seeing the FireWire drives.
From your Admin account or in root, type the following command in Terminal:
ls -alh /Volumes
then press Return.
If that command does not list your FireWire drives when used from your Admin account, try the command.
sudo ls -alh /Volumes
then press Return. Type your Admin password when prompted, then press Return.
The command above should list all mounted volumes. It should give you an output similar to the following:<pre>total 24
drwxrwxrwt 11 root admin 374B May 2 05:08 .
drwxrwxr-t 35 root admin 1K May 1 15:48 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 drsmoke admin 6K Feb 2 05:43 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x 20 drsmoke staff 714B Dec 2 17:38 Backup Sets
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1B May 1 15:49 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxrwxrwx 17 drsmoke staff 680B May 1 15:47 Our Work
drwxrwxrwx 15 drsmoke staff 544B Mar 17 17:56 Our Work Duplicate
drwxrwxrwx 31 drsmoke staff 1K Apr 26 00:47 Spare
drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin 1K May 1 15:26 Tiger1
drwxrwxr-t 31 root admin 1K Apr 4 14:33 Tiger2
drwxrwxr-t 35 root admin 1K Apr 15 18:55 iBook</pre>Copy and paste the output into a reply here, being sure to note the following in your response:
• Specify which drives/volumes are the FireWire drives or volumes. The drive/volume names are shown in the last column in the sample output above.
• If your FireWire drives are partitioned into more than one partition per drive, please also note that.
• Likewise if any of the FireWire drives or partitions are supposed to be bootable, please also specify which ones.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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See:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9206734
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9206635
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9043830
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8917764
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Yes, my first post is all about how darn iffy the adaptors are and I have two of them to return now.
I question your answer because I am betting that four drives that are in one enclosure NOT all RAIDed together as one drive, but as four separate drives that those four drive will count as four devices. The daisy chain that I had going had eight drives in TWO quad boxes, four drives in TWO dual drives and another drive in a single enclosure. A total of five “devices” if you will, but also a total of 13 drives that were usually in this daisy chain.
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