Unable to get firewire drive to mount

I've been having a lot of trouble mounting my external FW drive. It seems to have a mind of it's own, sometimes it works, but mostly it doesn't.
I'm pretty sure it's not the drive, because I can swap the FW cable for a USB cable (the drive supports both) and it mounts instantly with USB.
The issue is USB is so much slower than FW on my PB G4.
I'm not having any other issues with my machine what so ever.
Any ideas?

I really didn't find or get a solution for this; after I upgraded to 10.4.6 the issues stopped and it's working fine now.
Must have been an issue with a previous version is all I can assume...

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