IDE Drive too old to be compatible with MDD (FW800)?

I'm trying to get some data off an old IDE drive (1.2 Gig Connor that is in my Performa 6300CD). The drive is formatted as an HFS + drive.
I am connecting the drive to my FW800 via an IDE to USB adapter that I have used successfully many times with other IDE drives to this computer.
The drive mounts, and one time seemed OK long enough that I could view its' contents in finder. After selecting 1 file, and trying to select another for copying Finder froze.
I couldn't get Finder to relaunch, and couldn't get the machine to shutdown, resorting to holding the power switch in long enough for it to power down.
FW800 booted back up fine, subject drive mounted again fine. Double-clicked on its' desktop icon and Finder froze again. Had to resort to the power switch again. I'm not looking to test my luck further, trying to understand what might be happening.
Could the disk or the interface just be too slow for this machine? Is a 1995 vintage IDE drive compatible with modern ATA-100 / ATA-133 adapters? What information I've been able to find suggests that it should be. From specs I was able to find it is a 3600 RPM drive capable of up to 16.7 MB/sec transfer speeds. (Old Drive Specs)
Worst case I'll just put it back in the 6300 and copy what I want via Appleshare, it will just be a lot slower. That old computer booted fine last time I had it set up.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Power Mac G4 (FW800)   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   Dual 1.25 Ghz

I also have a G3 B&W (350 MHz, 10.3.9) available to try this drive in. Initially it was preventing the B&W from booting at all when installed internally (either IDE connector of the ribbon cable).
I looked again at the Spec page, and this drive has something called a Single Drive jumper setting as well as the more common Master or Slave settings. The drive was set to Single Drive. I changed the jumper to a Slave Drive setting.
After that the B&W booted up, I was able to share it, and successfully copy the contents off the drive.
At this point I'm pretty sure it was the jumper settings that were giving me problems. I'm going to do a quick test with the IDE to USB adapter with this current jumper setting to see if it allows access via the USB adapter.
Thanks for your input, I have accomplished what I set out to do.

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