Please, For The Love Of *Insert Who You Worship Here* - HELP ME!

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Ok, I have a Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II - 1 TB - drive. There was a fiasco a while back about the firmware update and when you applied it the whole thing stopped working. Anyways, I got a brand new one way way back.

However, here is my dilemma. I can only get this thing to work on USB. I have bought a firewire 800 card, 2 cables and it will not work. It picks up the drive, but it spins and spins and won't access/read it. So I gave up on that. I bought another firewire card. This time firewire 400. Same thing. It picks it up but will not access/read it.

So, during this trial period - I tried connecting the drive - firewire 400 - to my laptop (only computer with built in firewire) firewire 4 pin and it picks up the drive and access/reads it fine.

This tells me the following... the firewire works fine on the laptop and drive - those two only. The firewire DOES NOT WORK when connected to an add in card.

I do this for a living and it's pissing me off that I can't figure out the problem. WD support - NON EXISTENT so don't even tell me to speak to those mongrel idiots. They read from a set of automated responses. They don't support crap.

What do I do? Are the cards I am buying crap? One is a SIIG firewire 800 only card. The other was a VIA chipped Firewire 400 and USB card.

I would LOVE to take advantage of firewire instead of freaking usb but at the rate things are going, I don't think it will ever happen!

I AM BEGGING TO ALL THOSE THAT HAVE INFO! HELP ME PLEASE!

Thanks