Firewire port on laptop

Hi, I have a HP nx9010 DJ347A laptop with a firewire port. I have a Chronos external HD case with usb/firewire ports. Running Suse 9.1 and updated up to this weekend. The 3 usb ports on laptop work fine with the one usb port on ext HD. The firewire port on laptop and ext HD connected does not show up in /media as the usb HD partitions. This firewire hardware is quite new to me and I just do not know what to expect on the system. Kindly please some pointers on this matter. Thanks -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning