Firewire Drive hangups when starting recording

I was wondering if anybody has had any issues with their Firewire drives hanging with the beach ball spinning for as much as 20-30 seconds after record enabling a track and hitting the record transport button after upgrading to the new Studio version. (Never happened for me in 7.2)
The hard drive seems to function fine otherwise and disk utility doesn't see any issues.
It is intermittent and I can't seem to find the answer to this problem.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Thanks for all of the help - I have been out of town and just got back to testing. I will make sure that I turn the setting in Energy Saver off so that it does not put the hard disks to sleep. I cannot access the Journaling setting for some reason on the firewire drive, and unfortunately it is formatted as FAT-32, since I was using it with a pc also.
Does the FAT-32 system make it slower? Sorry for the added question.

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