FW800 drives that don't auto mount

I'm using a new Buffalo FW800 external HD. I am finding that the drive is disappearing (unmounting) from the desktop. I have a suspicion that when the iMac wakes from sleep, the Buffalo drive doesn't. Do I have to eject the Buffalo drive each time before I put my iMac to sleep? I had two Lacie FW400 drives before and I don't ever remember having such an issue. Any advice? (Yes, I did format the drive Mac OS Journaled when I got it and since ran Disk Utility but no errors showing up.) Thank you all in advance.

Just sleep the display and not the computer or HDs. See how that affects things. That's my normal setting.

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