LaCie 250gb invisible when using Firewire 800

My LaCie 250gb which I use as an external backup is not recognized by my computer when I use the Firewire 800 connection. What could be the problem?

Damian,
Following are my experiences. My setup is listed down below.
-Yes, that will fix the problem. The bottom line is, M-audio FW box doesn´t like to share disk drives on the G5 firewire bus (both 400 aand 800). So yes, 400 and 800 FW ports are somehow connected internally, sharing the same resources.
-I had a spare FW 400 PCI card lying around, and I attached my disk drives to that. Didn´t start to look around for a FW 800 card though.
-And although it seems like a fault on Apple´s side too, I can´t speak very highly on the FW410 box either. Every time I do an update on my system, the 410 install gets messed up (won´t show devices in AudioMidiSetup, the only cure is to uninstall and re-install).
And the other interesting thing is that every time my Mac boots up, the 410 control panel mixer page is all messed up with funny pan positions and fader values. A reset does the job, but this has to be done every time I boot up. Maybe this is working in Tiger.
I tried solving this with the M-Audio support, and after describing my problem, they just said I should call their tech support. Being on the other side of the world, I shurely don´t wanna max out my phone bill.
Haven´t upgraded to Tiger yet, don´t want to keep upgrading all the time. In general the system is working nicely.
B.R.
J. Lampela
www.neomusic.fi
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G5 1.8 DP 2,5 Gb RAM
Panther 10.3.9
1 external S-ATA (LaCie)
2 external FW
M-Audio FW410 (1.5. driver)
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