Sleep and a firewire external drive?

I was wondering the correct way to put my eMac to sleep with a new external drive. Do I eject the external drive and then put the eMac to sleep or can I just leave the external drive going when I put the eMac to sleep? I don't want to screw up my new HD.
eMac 1.25 gHz   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   768 MB RAM, 30 GB internal drive, 160 GB firewire external drive

Bob:
I think since you're hard drive is connected via Firewire, it's safe to keep it turned on and then in your "Energy Saver" System Preferences select "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible."
Notice the "(s)"

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