Urgent!! - - Terminal command may be interfering with my G Raids.

After I had entered a command into the Terminal and restarted the computer, my 2 external drives (G Raid mini and G Raid) do not show up nor can I use them at all on my laptop.
The command I had entered was sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions. It is for my Shuttle Pro editing mouse.
Is there a way to undo this command. I think it might be interfering with their operation.
Thanks.

I have performed the disk repair in Disk Utility and it stated that it repaired any permissions that might have been in need of repair.
But did you Repair the Disk before Repairing Permissions?
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Tiger Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)

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