Mac G4 external firewire broken

I've recently encountered this problem which caused me to lose a lot of data. The setup is mac mini g4 + external firewire hard drive from Freecom.
What is happening is that read/write operations do not result in copy fidelity. Here's a terminal log to illustrate:
ariel:Freecom FW 1TB kaitlin$ cp another.avi another1.avi
ariel:Freecom FW 1TB kaitlin$ ls -lh another*
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaitlin staff 176M 2 Sep 11:48 another.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaitlin staff 176M 2 Sep 12:07 another1.avi
ariel:Freecom FW 1TB kaitlin$ md5 another.avi
MD5 (another.avi) = 6eedf37d80b81f61f0c4a8f71dfea57c
ariel:Freecom FW 1TB kaitlin$ md5 another1.avi
MD5 (another1.avi) = b8cffac964d494279a508f11151ee529
So basically the original and its copy have different hashcodes which means they're not the same file, so I can't trust the firewire. It does this consistently with any file read/write operation to/from any destination. The machine does NOT behave like this with external USB drives or the internal drive.
I've got two computers, both G4 1.5 GHz of the same era (Mac mini and Powerbook 15"), and the same symptoms appear on both machines, as well as when hooking the drive up to a FW800 port.
I tried connecting the drive to a friend's Intel Mac Mini, and it does NOT exhibit this behaviour. So I'm suspecting it's a recent software update that caused the drive to fail, since I have used the same firewire disk for a few months without any problems.
My question is, has anyone else had this experience? and if so, is there a fix?

This problem seems to be with Mac OS X 10.5.8. I've reinstalled a clean Mac OS X 10.5.0 and the issue doesn't occur.

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