Multiple Firewire Drives Do Not Load to Desktop

Hi all,
I have been using several Firewire External drives with Avid Express Pro editing system. Over the past months several firewire drives have broken down on me, increasingly loosing functionality over a period of several weeks. I have now damaged 3 external drives - two were Lacie 800+400 Pin Firewire Drives, and just recently my G-Technology Firewire Drive has also broken down.
First the drives slow down on playback, then read/write time slow down. this happens when using Avid, Final Cut Pro, or when trying to simply copy files to the drive.
Now, my current G Tech Firewire Drive will not even load to the desktop, and Disk Utilities can not find it. I have tried using both 400, 800 pin fW, and USB 2. Problem continues. I have reset ram, run tech tools cd - no problems are found.
When I plug the Firewire Drive into my iBook laptop - it loads fine and runs normally! When I run Disk Utility from the iBook it says the Firewire drives
need no repairs!
I recently connected a friend's firewire drive that had never been used on my desktop and it loaded to my G5 just fine!
What is happening? Is my G5 desktop corrupting the drives as it writes to them? It clearly has something to do with how my computer is interacting with these FW drives. Is it a firmware issue?
I am under a pressing deadline, and can't let go of this desktop for service for over a week right now.
Any suggestions much appreciated! I'm desperate to get this going!
Thanks!

Hi Tom,
Thanks for the feedback. In all cases, I've been using FW drives on their own, not daisy changed. I've tried multiple FW cables as well to confirm that it is not the cables. These 3 different drives I've had problems with each have their own separate power supply, so I don't think that's the issue.
I'll try running a copy of DiskWarriror.
However, if it's an issue of directories on the drive, wouldn't the FW Drives not work on ALL computers? Why would it function fine on any computer other then my desktop?
Any more thoughts would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Max

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