Firewire ghost

I have two external hard drives attached to my Quad G5— a 400 Mb/s FireWire and an 800 Mb/s FireWire (both La Cie). The problem is that the 400 FW drive prevents the 800 Fw drive from mounting, even if the 400 drive is turned off. They are not connected to each other, only to the computer through the 400 and 800 ports. Furthermore, the 400 drive seems to be leaving "ghosts" on the FW bus. I can't even upgrade the firmware on the 800 because the update app will work only if the target disk is the only one attached to the computer. When I disconnect every FW device from the G5, it still says that there is a 400 FW device attached. Disk Utility can't see the ghost 400 device, but "About this Mac" under the apple certainly can. In fact, now it says that there are two of them, even though every FW port on the machine is empty. Any clues?
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Hi Nebbish:
Try resetting the FW bus, unplug everything including the power cord, let it sit for 20 min or so, plug everything back in except FW, boot, then one by one plug in the firewire drives. Do it again and wait 40 min if it did not work the first time.
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