Firewire 800 keeps ejecting my disk

Thought it was a fluke, but it keeps happening. My LaCie drive keeps disconnecting and I get an error message that it was improperly disconnected. I've tried two different firewire cables. I'm not touching the cord. It just suddenly loses the connection. Is it possible that I have a bad firewire port? I just bought the MacBook today. Should I return it for a replacement?

Hi,
I am encountering a similar eject disk problem. When attempting to clone (with CCC) iMac's internal HD to external firewire 800 connected HD, the cloning stops fairly quickly and Firewire HD is ejected with an error message stating disk has not been properly ejected. The result is that the cloning partition becomes corrupted and can't be repaired by disk utility.
Since I am using a quad interface HD NewerTech Voyager Q ''toaster'' for internal drives, I managed to make a functional clone the iMac HD with usb connection.
But if I attempt to boot with firewire connection the corruption problem is recreated > Backup screwed.
I was wondering if my firewire port could be dead ? I tried multiple times formatting the HD and start the process again but firewire connection and cloning leads to failure at each trial.
Any idea ? (Note: everything in my setup seems up to date)

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To do this, I was just going to use a FireWire 800 cable and target disk mode to copy the image back to the drive through Disk Utility but I don't own such a cable. Cheapest and simplest one I could find was on eBay here;
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I tried the two good disks in the main chasis with new cables and power supply , and I could not get them to come on or show.
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Lacie Data Recovery wants $600 ( $300 x 2 drives ) if they recover data without need for a clean room , $3000 ( $1500 x 2 drives ) if there is need for clean room. If they don't recover , you dont pay , if they recover and you do not want to pay, then they just send you the damaged disk ( or perhaps keep it , or smash it then return it to you) .
There are many other data recovery services so I guess a few days to sift through them but I guess the maker reference should be the best way ( I think its actually a sub-company that lacie forwards data recovery to.
Too many factors are involved. One that will such be a secure thing to do or 6 months later you find out that someone opened 10 accounts under your name , or emptied your bank account ( thats actually not a problem because there is almost never any money in my bank account) . So security is a concern. I have encountered individuals that make it their business stealing peoples stuff from their disks. Once I even had one Tech guy which was refered to solve a problem I had , copying disks contents right in front of me for absolutely no reason. So I ask him what are you doing, and he says , I am copying everything just to make sure they are safe ( : ) )
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1. Plug Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB drive into Macbook Pro via Firewire 800
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+4. Plug the computer back in and turn it on.+
+5. Reconnect the device(s) (one at a time if there is more than one) and test. Test with each port if you have more than one.+
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1317?viewlocale=en_US

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