Only 1 firewire port working on every dock's I have

Hello,
I spent 1 entire day trying to find a solution for this problem and..nothing.
I read foruns, discussions everything. Tried a lot of solutions.
I have 2 docks:
- 1 go flex desk firewire 800
- 1 Icy Box dock fireiwire 800
Both have 2 firewire ports.
In both of them, only 1 firewire port works. Both docks have 1 firewire port not working.
This means that if I want to copy files from one hard drive to the other by firewire... its not possible!!
Anyone here have this problem and found a solution??
I am really getting crazy with this. I don't believe both of the docks are faulty...maybe they are but after everything I readed here I believe it's probably a macbook problem.
I have mackbook pro i7 15" 2011.
Oh, I should say that this worked before... some weeks ago this was working and I have no idea why only one firewire port works now...
Any other solution I should try? Already tried all that pram a smc resets...

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