Seagate Drive and Edirol FA-101 Won't Play Nice

Turning on the power to my FA-101 somehow disconnects my Seagate drive. My iMac tells me that I should eject drives before disconnecting them, as if it were something I have done.
Each device is plugged into a Firewire port--tha FA-101 runs on bus power, the Seagate on an ac adapter.
This happens if the computer is running or is in sleep mode.
To get my hard drive running again, I unplug it and plug it back in.
I usually put the computer in sleep mode before flicking the power switch on the FA101, but since it seems to make no difference and my Mac now takes 30 seconds to go into sleep mode, I will sometimes skip that step.
I've tried just leaving the FA-101 on, even though it is a waste of energy, but after a night away, the sound is crackly and poppy and I have to reset it anyway.
1) Why??
2) Is there a boot procedure I should be using to start up my devices? My Edirol manual warned against "hotplugging", but didn't tell me how to go about start up/restart.

David_Pye wrote:
I used one of these for years, I found this problem the first time I used it. So I just used the bus power, and never turned it off. It's just on when it's plugged in. Do you need to turn it off?
I have to reset it after a while. I start to get crackling in the playback and recording. It's been on for about twelve hours today, and it's time to reset it already!
So, either I sleep the computer to do it, or I shut down and do it.
I found the power supply, but it was not with any socks.

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