External hard drive is not mounting via hub

Hi mates,
I bought LaCie D2 Quadra external hard drive and when I connected it to LaCie Huby firewire port it would not mount at all, but when I connected the hard drive straight to my MacBooks firewire port it mounted nicely.
what could be the problem that its not mounting with the hub?
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Just tested with USB and it works.
oh.. just remembered that I sync my iPod through one of the Hubys fw ports, so I guess that ports are OK.
Maybe I have a faulty fw cable?

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