I had the same power-up problem with my NEC 2500A in an external Firewire case with Oxford 911 chip. I used a Firmware utilty (http://www.triumphtech.com/Driver/Oxford160GB.zip) to make the Oxford 911 chip waited 6 seconds before polling the drive, then my 2500A worked fine.

Markz2003
Maybe you can check information about ADS firewire cases on this website although it is for Mac. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/firewire/...w_reports.html