Firewire port not recognized on new MacBook Pro

I've been using time machine to backup my computer to a LaCie external drive and noticed that it hasn't done it for over two weeks. I can hear the drive when it's connected but it doesn't show up on my desktop. I plugged it into my old macbook and it worked fine. I'm using a new adapter made for this model of macbook pro — a firewire 800.
I need to use this computer for work and am hoping there is an upgrade that might fix it. I can't afford the time it will take at a mac store to fix this. Any advice?
thanks so much

dose the hard drive show up in system profiler or disk utility?
(apple menu, about this mac, more info button, USB from the left hand list.)
(dock, finder, menu bar, go menu, utilities, disk utilities)

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