my firewire is going at usb 1.1 speed

my computer is an a8js

I just got an external case to back up my old laptop hd which is a 60 gb western digital entirely full.

i got this case

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817146035


because I wanted to use the firewire port. I figure i might as well I dont have any other firewire devices.

But when I plug it in it takes about 5 minutes just to read the files from.

Next I use it in usb, about 15 seconds.

The speed of the firewire port is so slow its about usb 2.0 Not useful for this purpose at all. I dont know what purpose it would be useful for perhaps a camera upload.

Whats going on here? Have any of you used firewire hard drives? Is it possibly the enclosure, or a driver?

Or is my firewire port somehow bottlenecked into another device like usb?
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edit fixed. what im trying to understand is whats slow and how do I test? Is it slow in my laptop or from the case ?

 

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