In my case, this seems at least partly dependent on the kernel driver. On other distributions and with file managers other than Nautilus, there is always a long pause before I can see the content of this Firewire hard drive. Neverthless, the wait is greatly reduce using a custom 2.6.24 kernel compiled with the 'juju' stack. Still does not not work well in Fedora 8, though (which uses juju, I think, but 2.6.23).
In my case, this seems at least partly dependent on the kernel driver. On other distributions and with file managers other than Nautilus, there is always a long pause before I can see the content of this Firewire hard drive. Neverthless, the wait is greatly reduce using a custom 2.6.24 kernel compiled with the 'juju' stack. Still does not not work well in Fedora 8, though (which uses juju, I think, but 2.6.23).