New iMac cannot hold a FW 800 connection

Hello all, I have this brand new iMac for my music studio. This machine cannot hold a FW connection for more than a few minutes without losing it. Because there is only one FW 800 port (boo!! I cannot grasp this move by Apple to kill off it's association with pro audio apps and studios that have so much invested in FW 400..anyway...), grr..because of the one 800 port, my signal chain is first to the Apogee Ensemble via a 800 to 400 converter cable, and then to two outboard PPA Oxford 911+ chipset 500GB drives. When the FW connection fails, the only option is to shutdown the whole shebang, drag the hard disk icons to the trash which BTW, is not reliable on this machine for some reason, shut down the Ensemble and restart it, remount the drives, etc.
C'mon! Apple! Are you listening? Why can't you make a computer that can be used in a recording environment without one stupid FW buss problem after another? It was like this with the Lucent chips, now it's another problem! Do you have no interest in pro audio anymore?
I have been browsing this board. My other posts are on the Logic Express board, which is full of posts by me and others wondering about the FW problems. This is a new machine, same FW buss problems, may or may not be chip related. Very frustrating. Cannot refresh connections without restarting. If anybody's got any insight on this, I'm all ears.
Rick

These are the formal procedures for PRAM reset and SMC reset, so be sure to do them precisely.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
You seem to have a lot or peripheral devices. When you reconnect from doing the SMC reset, if you are using a power strip that is old or crowded with other devices, for this test, you should plug in the iMac directly to a wall power outlet. If your FireWire devices are on one power strip, you should also spread them out to more than one wall outlet.
Connect one FireWire device at a time. See if this problem exists if only one device is connect; use one at a time to check if the FireWire connection remains stable.
If each device checks out by itself, connect that "Apogee Ensemble" first, and daisy-chain one of the two FireWire drives to see if it remains stable. If so, remove that device and try the other FireWire drive.
Finally, if all is well with two devices connected, try them all connected at the same time.
Note: If one or both of those FireWire drives is being used for a function that does not require the faster FireWire speed, and the drive also has a USB 2.0 interface, you should connect it via USB 2.0. For example, a Time Machine backup drive does not require ultra fast data access. USB 2.0 is more than fast enough. So take some load off the FireWire port and use USB 2.0 when possible.

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