Does anyone actually use a firewire attached drive on 3.1?

I see that there are firewire devices listed in the kernel config file.

I tried to use firewire with my AMD64 box and it panics every time. So
I'm wondering if macppc works.

I'd like to attach a hard drive via firewire to save me some trouble
of figuring out how to mount it internally.

Thanks.

Andy