Firewire 400 camera doesn't work with 800 port on iMac

I have a firewire 400 camera that i'm using for a project and one firewire 800 slot on my iMac (Late 2009).
When I plug the camera in, nothing responds no matter what I do - tried resetting the PRAM and SMC.
Compare this to my older iMac (Late 2007) which has both firewire 800 and 400 ports. I plug it in and it pops up using the underlying Quicktime controller api on either the 800 or 400 port no problem.
So I figured after trying to install a firewire camera library (libdc1394) which I need for my project which didn't work, that it must be a hardware issue, so I took it to the Apple store. The genius at the store booted the OS (Lion) from a firewire drive via 400 to 800 cable (no external power to the f/w drive was used) and then using the spare 400 slot on the hard drive, he plugged (daisy chaining) in my camera and it loaded!
So this suggested 2 things - my OS is corrupt or my card can't read straight from my device but why a hard drive in between would change this is beyond me.
I came home and installed OS X on to an external USB hard drive and loaded up from it - so this is a fresh version of Lion, there should be no software issues.
Plug the camera in to the I/O board of the iMac but load the OS from the external USB hard drive - nothing happens, the profiler doesn't detect anything at all.
On a side note, I installed XP and Ubuntu Linux and they also can't detect it, which further suggests its the device or I/O board when interfacing directly with this camera. I've tried providing the devices with external power, daisy chaining 2 cameras, using a usb hub....nothing works.
Just for good measure, I tried to boot Lion off the external USB on my older iMac and again, it worked no problem, which to me really narrows it down to the hardware.
Can anyone work out this mystery? Driving me nuts!
I feel like perhaps the port is a bit dodgy and when the genius daisy chained it, it worked better, but no idea why.
Someone said I should get a firewire 400 to usb adaptor - I actually can't find any...do they even exist?

Maybe something in Apple's quick assist will hlp
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