Connecting thunderbolt drive to mac pro?

I ahve a 2008 Mac Pro with Firewire800 ports.  I bought a brand new Thunderbolt external harddrive and bought a cable and an adapter for Firewire800-Thuderbolt.  The drive is not recognized on my Finder or Desktop.
Advice?

If the external drive has USB or Firewire ports connect using those
Thunderbolt to Firewire adaptors are unreliable and there will be no speed gain using a Mac without a dedicated Thunderbolt port

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