FireWire 800 Card Reader

I just bought 3 Lexar Professional UDMA FireWire® 800 Card Readers. The problem I am having is that they wont work in the 800 port. It cant be the card reader because they are plug and play and not all 3 would be broken. So, either there is a firmware update or something. Please help.
Thanks

Have you tried using the readers individually, using the long fw800 cable, and not the short connecting ones? I have two of them and the short cable(s) caused some transfer problems in which I lost images. Perhaps because they get bent so much, the stress damaged the short cables somehow.

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Dear Sir Christensen,
thank you for your message.
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