Two HDs disappeared after 10.5.7 update

I have three external firewire HDs hooked to my MBP(2.33 GHz). One is the 320GB Time Machine, and two are older 80GB units.
After installing 10.5.7 update from the SW Update menu, one of the 80GB HDs failed to mount. I thought it was a loose connection and ignored it for a week unitl the second 80GB HD failed to mount.
To test, I disconnected all drives but one. Disk Utilities shows the Volume, but the Drive Name is grayed out. If I click on the Drive Name and Mount, I get the message "Disk NAME could not be mounted".
If I run Verify Disk, I get the whole list of checks with the message "The volume NAME appears to be OK".
I could make a disk image of NAME, but it would not open "no mountable file systems". I tried to delete NAME.dmg, but could not empty the trash "the operation cannot be completed....NAME.dmg is in use".
If I click on the grayed out disk NAME in Disk Utilities and click on Info, it says "Owners Enabled: NO".
What do I do now?

What make are the drives that are failing to mount? There have been reports that Buffalo hard drives need a firmware update to work in 10.5.7, and I have not heard of one being available yet. I believe I saw one person report on a different make drive that was recovered after using Disk Warrior on the drive. The statement about "Owners Enabled: NO" just means you had checked the box in GetInfo for that volume to ignore permissions.
Francine
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