New MacMini + Old FireWire = Sad face

I just bought a new Mac Mini to replace my dying MacBook Pro (both 10.6.3). Once I got a FireWire 800->400 converter pigtail, everything transferred over OK using Target Disk mode from the old Mac, so I know that the FireWire is working. However, the MacMini doesn't see two of my older FireWire peripherals: a LaCie external drive and my Mackie Onyx Satellite audio I/O unit. They don't show up at all, even in System Profiler. Just to verify, I brought the LaCie drive into work and hooked it up to an older Mac I have here, and it's behaving fine.
Anybody got any insight?

OK, half the problem is solved. I did a little sniffing around and discovered that there was no FireWire Audio support installed. For some goofy reason, it apparently isn't included in a 10.6 installation. (The extension is called "AppleFWAudio".) I signed on to the Apple Developer site and downloaded the FireWire developer package, which includes a folder called FireWireAudio inside FireWireComponents inside FireWireSDK26. In there we can find several different AppleFWAudio extensions. Installing the experimental AppleFWAudio-2.4.1fc1 driver appears to have fixed my Onyx audio problem.
Still no answer on the LaCie drive. I've opened a trouble ticket with LaCie.

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