Western Digital Mybook HD does not mount with firewire

I bought a Mybook HD 500 GB from Western Digital with 3 interfaces FW400, FW800 and USB 2.
USB works but not firewire, somebody has a solution?
Impossible to mount the volume with firewire and there nothing on WD website.

No idea. My WD HD Pro is the same and I am quite disappointed. It usually mounts but not always. The 'button manager' is useless - this claim about the light showing me how full it is has never worked and the drive always takes ages to spin up when it is accessed slowing down all the drive access operations while the computer waits. Plus its noisy...

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