Firewire HDD causes hard lockups

[William M. Quarles]

Hey all,

I have a Futura Mobile Storage Solution 3.5" External IDE HDD Enclosure 
with USB 2.0 and Firewire support. I'm having problems using it with my 
Firewire connection. I was thinking about submitting a report to 
Bugzilla, but wanted to get some feedback first.

The drive that I placed inside the enclosure is a Western Digital 
Protégé WD400EB-11CPFG0, with 40.0 fake GB.

Every time that this drive is hooked up to my computer in Fedora 9 (and 
now Fedora 10) the system locks up hard. I had the drive connected 
during install of Fedora 10, and the installation program kept 
complaining about how the partition table on it was invalid, and asked 
if I wanted to create a new partition table for it. At some random point 
during the installation, the computer would lock up hard. The drive is 
for backup only, so I unplugged it, restarted installation and 
everything went fine.

The drive is formatted with NTFS, as it was originally inside a Windows 
XP Pro computer, and I am now using it to back up my files on my laptop 
while running Windows XP Pro. I tried repartitioning and reformatting in 
Windows XP, but Fedora 10 installation complained again and the computer 
locked up hard sometime later again.

Any thoughts?

Peace,
William