Hard drive/Finder trouble

I'm having trouble with my hard drives, it's happened several times during the last couple of days that the Finder becomes unresponsive, as if there's something it's unable to read. I can't get it to relaunch, and as the menu bar also disappears I have to hold down the power button to shut down the computer. When I turn it on again everything is fine for a few hours, then something goes wrong again. I've verified all hard drive partitions in the disk utility and they're ok. My impression is that it has to do with one of my external hard drives (a LaCie connected by firewire), it seems it won't wake up when the finder is trying to access it. Any ideas what to do?

Here's what the log says around the time of a freeze (I've left out a few clearly unrelated lines). The external hard drive in question is called 'Audio'. During the freeze I tried to force quit the Finder unsuccessfully. In the end I disconnected the hard drive, at which point everything unfroze.
22.07.08 1:30:00 AM kernel IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType0E::setPowerState(0x6c20900, 1 -> 4) timed out after 100131 ms
22.07.08 1:30:31 AM MIDIServer[7428] FireWireMIDI_Stop
22.07.08 1:30:31 AM MIDIServer[7428] MAFireWireMIDILoader dealloc
22.07.08 1:30:50 AM /usr/sbin/spindump[8365] process 227 is being monitored
22.07.08 1:31:01 AM /usr/sbin/spindump[8365] process 227 is being force quit
22.07.08 1:31:12 AM /usr/sbin/spindump[8365] process 227 is being no longer being monitored
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM kernel disk1s6: I/O error.
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM kernel e Read] [PBlkNum 262619352] [LBlkNum 0] [FSLogMsgID 1694280564] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM kernel disk1s6: I/O error.
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM kernel jnl: disk1s6: dojnlio: strategy err 0x5
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM kernel jnl: disk1s6: writejournalheader: error writing the journal header!
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM kernel jnl: disk1s6: dojnlio: strategy err 0x6
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM kernel jnl: disk1s6: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 24576 bytes to the journal!
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM com.apple.launchd[208] ([0x0-0xd00d].com.apple.finder[227]) Exited: Killed
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM mds[32] (/Volumes/Audio/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/8319CB21-B147-4EA6-B8E7-C7F690C C688A)(Error) IndexCI in ci_ftruncate:ftruncate(94 /Volumes/Audio/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/8319CB21-B147-4EA6-B8E7-C7F690CC 688A/live.2.indexPostings, 262144) error:22
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM mds[32] (/Volumes/Audio/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/8319CB21-B147-4EA6-B8E7-C7F690C C688A)(Error) IndexCI in initPayload:ftruncate err: 22
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM mds[32] (/Volumes/Audio/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/8319CB21-B147-4EA6-B8E7-C7F690C C688A)(Error) IndexCI in ci_ftruncate:ftruncate(95 /Volumes/Audio/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/8319CB21-B147-4EA6-B8E7-C7F690CC 688A/live.2.indexPostings, 262144) error:22
22.07.08 1:33:12 AM mds[32] (/Volumes/Audio/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/8319CB21-B147-4EA6-B8E7-C7F690C C688A)(Error) IndexCI in initPayload:ftruncate err: 22
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:13 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:14 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:14 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:14 AM mds[32] (/Volumes/Audio/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/8319CB21-B147-4EA6-B8E7-C7F690C C688A)(Error) IndexCI in ci_ftruncate:ftruncate(121 /Volumes/Audio/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/8319CB21-B147-4EA6-B8E7-C7F690CC 688A/live.2.indexPostings, 262144) error:22
22.07.08 1:33:14 AM mds[32] (/Volumes/Audio/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/8319CB21-B147-4EA6-B8E7-C7F690C C688A)(Error) IndexCI in initPayload:ftruncate err: 22
22.07.08 1:33:14 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:14 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
22.07.08 1:33:15 AM kernel MsgID 2025222753] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
22.07.08 1:33:15 AM kernel disk1s6: media is not present.
Message was edited by: von Bordwehr
Message was edited by: von Bordwehr

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