On 2 different Windows XP machines, the 1394 controller would reset and the drive would disappear. So maybe that was part of the FW adoption problem. But mostly

On 2 different Windows XP machines, the 1394 controller would reset and the drive would disappear. So maybe that was part of the FW adoption problem. But mostly USB2 was fast enough for consumer drives, unless you were sitting there with a stopwatch.