Unable to type in password if firewire devices are connected

I've just upgraded to Lion, and have this odd problem. When Lion boots on my Mac Mini, it prompts to type in my password. If I have my Firewire devices connected (two external storage device, a Seagate and Drobo), I can't type in password or click on any of the buttons (such as reboot or shut down).
If I disconnect Firewire cable from my Mac Mini, I can type in the password, then reconnect Firewire cable and everything works fine from that point on!?
Looking around, I saw few reports of frozen login screen. Though, my problem looks a bit different. For example, the cursor in my case is still normal cursor, not the beach ball.
If it makes any difference, the keyboard is Apple's wireless (bluetooth) keyboard.
Wondering if anybody else run into same problem?

For now, I simply connected it via USB, and it seems to be happy. It's just a DVD drive, probably not getting too much benefit for being on Firewire port.
As for firmware, last firmware update for it was back in 2005 (it's an older DVD drive, LG GSA-5163D, however still does its job very nicely), which I think I might have installed long time ago (not sure how to get what version the drive runs). Anyhow, LG provides only Windows exe for flashing the firmware, and I don't have any Windows boxes at home. There's at least one open-source flasher for Mac which claims it can extract firmware from LG's Windows exe and flash it onto the drive. However, I'd rather not trust it not to fry the drive in the process if I really don't have to ;-)

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