This is something I really have to try out soon.
My laptop at work has a FireWire port, but I disabled it a long time ago since I don't use it. It's time for me to dig up a cable and test some of the workstations around the office.

One could also get a PCMCIA IEE-1394 card for their laptop to try this out.
I would be curious to see if this will work with a Windows laptop running andLinux (see
http://www.andlinux.org/). I will try this out some time this week.