Slow to mount firewire drive.

I just bought a 200 gig firewire harddrive off of ebay and it takes about 2 minutes for it to mount. I plug it in and the activity light blinks for a while before it finally shows up. It doesn't take as long when it is connected with USB but I would rather use FireWire because it's better. Does anyone have any ideas why this would take so long.

My friend I had the exact problem.
I had the maxtor One touch II I used it like one year after warranty expires the contoller chip gone.
probablly thats the problem you have or some thing different than mine.
Somethimes system cant recognize the external drive for a moment. Unplug the Firewire cable or USB cable and re-plug it. That could working for me.

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