Hard drive will not show on desktop?

Please can someone help? when i connect my iomega ego HDD to my macbook pro it does not show on the desktop and i can not access it? i have gone to FINDER and the preferences say it will show. I have gone to the SYSTEM PROFILER and it shows as connected in the USB as a High speed Bus - Iomega ego HDD (so i know its working) also i have gone to DISK UTILITY and it registers as 500 GB external raid.
Does anyone know how i can access my hard drive?

lloydie9143,
I would suggest if there is no important data (or data that cannot be moved to another device) to erase the external and reformat the drive.
System Profiler can see it which is a good sign and is recognizing the HDD, but reformatting it can often correct many of these issues with drives mounting and showing up for use.
I hope this helps
GL!

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