Firewire connection problem

I've just bought a GDrive Mobile which my MacBook Pro recognises on the USB port only.  Neither Firewire 400 nor 800 work.  The 400 port works fine with a Lacie external hard drive.  Any ideas?

Before connecting any firewire drive bring up System Profiler (Apple menu->About This Mac->More Info...
Click on Firewire in the list on the left, it should say Firewire Bus:  Max speed up to 800 MB/s or something like that in the pane on the right.  I'm assuming you have no Firewire devices connected at this point.
If you have a red warning message about not being able to get status or something like that you may have a hung firewire bus.  I've found I have to shutdown the machine, unplug the power adapter and remove the battery to reset the firewire bus.  If you have a newer Macbook Pro with the permanent battery, not sure how you accomplish that same reset.
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