Have similar needs. Found an old OWC Mercury Elite HDD that uses FireWire but no longer have old Mac G4 If the job is a one-time transfer to get files from ol

Have similar needs. Found an old OWC Mercury Elite HDD that uses FireWire but no longer have old Mac G4 If the job is a one-time transfer to get files from old media to new media, is there any reason not to use an old Linux kernel on (non-RPi) compatible hardware that had IEEE 1394 enabled by default instead of compiling a new kernel for RPi with IEEE 1394 enabled