Large OS 8.6 Compatible Firewire Hard Drive?

I'm needing a larger firewire hard drive, which must able to back up my older Macs (running 9.1 and 8.6)
However the newest 500GB ones all seem to list OS 10.x as their minimum requirement. (Not sure whether this is the minimum for doing stuff like formatting and partitioning, or whether these drives will not mount at all under OS9)
Can anyone suggest a large firewire external drive which will mount and perform backups under OS 8.6 ?

It should look somewhat like this:
xxxx% sudo du -x -h -d 1 /
Password:
24K /.fseventsd
1,9G /.Spotlight-V100
0B /.TemporaryItems
0B /.Trashes
0B /.vol
17G /Applications
9,0M /bin
0B /cores
4,5K /dev
1,2G /Developer
14G /Library
1,0K /net
0B /Network
10,0G /opt
4,4G /private
6,8M /sbin
4,0G /System
157G /Users <------ in this example this folder contains the most GB's
1,7G /usr
4,0K /Volumes
xxxG / <------ xxx GB : this is the total for all folders above.
So the results are presented one folder at a time in alphabetical order (?) with the total at the end.

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