FireWire speed widget

Hey,
Does anyone know a simple widget that will display the speed of my firewire connection? iStat Pro will only display speed when connecter to another computer, but not when writing to/reading from my external hard drive.
If no such widget should exist, a small app could do the trick...
I have tried searching the widgets on the main site, without succes though.
Thanks.

The speed would still be at the 400 not 800. As the device does not support 800 that you are using. You would use a firewire 400 to 800 cable.
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