first, check the cables, maybe unplug and replug them in case the connections oxidized, next, with whatever formatter you originally used, update/replace the driver without formatting, the software should let you do this. this is what apple recommends for drives that suddenly don't work and i've seen it work a few times. if they won't show up in the formatter, try scsi probe (you might want to move them to an external case or unused drive bay on another machine and change the id while you work with them), if they won't show up in scsi probe the drive or machine may have a serious problem, but like i said reinstalling the driver on the drive usually works. norton and the other various utilities can't really do anything with a drive that won't mount.
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