Does your Firewire drive appear to crash your Mac?

Mine does. I'll be playing tracks in iTunes and it'll just stop responding, then Finder will stop responding, then you'll have to reboot your computer.

Well, not anymore! I've found that if you yank the plug out really quick, then plug it back in before the OS notices what you've done, it rejigs the drive back to life and you can carry on as normal. Obviously, it would be better if it just worked, but where's the fun in that?!

For the record, slow though it is, I recommend using USB2 for regular use. I transfer large files with Firewire, but idle with USB2. Again, not ideal but at least it's a solution(ish).