HI - I just forked out a couple of hundred clams for a 500g firewire drive from MacWay which appears in "about this mac" as follows:
FireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
SilverMAX:
Manufacturer: Macway
Model: 0x2835
GUID: 0x63A060007FF07
Maximum Speed: Up to 800...