G-drive mini and mobile don't mount

For some reason the G-Drive mini and the G-Drive mobile bus powered drives do not mount on my Power Mac properly. I connect them directly to my Firewire 800 port and they always act up or freeze up. I plug other bus powered portable firewire drives (like my LaCie rugged) and they work fine. I only have this issue with the G-Technology drives. Again, I'm plugging directly into the computer to try to get a direct current. Does anyone have an idea why this is?

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Hello all,
A little back story:
I used a 160gb G-Drive Mini with my 15 Al Powerbook G4 (w/OSX 10.4.11) extensively for a couple years with a firewire 400 cable. One day the drive's firewire port crapped out, and since the machine doesnt have the power to run the drive on USB, I figured out that hooking up both USB and firewire cables worked for mounting the drive. (I assume the firewire port was powering the drive and USB was working for data transfer) Time went on, got used to using the drive like this, got fed up, one day decided to send it in for repair, got my drive back and it still wouldnt mount when using just a firewire cable, sent the drive back again and they sent me a brand new one which i just got today.
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Thanks.

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