Fire wire drive won't work with Mac Pro

This is kind of crazy. I just bought a MacPro 2.8 Ghz 8-core. I hook up my OWC Neptune FW drive to it. Nothing. Didn't Apple invent Firewire? It boots just fine on the ten year old G4 running OS 10.4.11. I really am getting a little annoyed with Apple. They control the software, the hardware, and created firewire, but it doesn't work. On the other hand, is it a problem with the FW drive being a couple of years old? Should I be writing OtherWorldComputing instead?
Thanks in advance for any help.
MGuilfoile

Thank you very much. That clarifies the boot issue. The firmware password is a password that you can only create when booting from your Leopard disk, then set it from the OSX menu.: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
Now, I can see some discussions reporting similar issues:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2008061212382380 (you need membership)
also for certain firewire drives, you need a firmware update:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/04/11/09/apples-mac-os-x-update-brings-word-of-f irewire-problems (now, this refers to Panther but it is VERY likely that you need to do the same on OSX Leopard. You HAVE updated via the "combo update"? http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10-5-6_ComboUpdate)
NB: could finder be your issue? have you repaired disk permissions with disk utility? (only a thought)
Message was edited by: Alexandre

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