G4 Won't recognize Lacie external drive

My G4 will not display/boot my Lacie external drive. I've used it for several years, so it has worked in the past. We had a power outage and after that it won't regonize the drive. I tested the drive on my Mac laptop and the drive works fine, just not on my G4. It powers up when I plug it into a G4 firewire port, but won't dsiplay/mount on the desktop. I tried rebooting everything and unplugging all other USB and Firewires from the back. No use. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hello! Try hooking it up to the book and repairing the drive in disk utility. Then dismount it and unhook it and turn off it's power. Then reconnect it to the G4 and then power it on. Sometimes this will get it to mount. There have been some LaCie's that have had problems with a weak power supply. Tom

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