diff --git a/drivers/adodb-pdo_firebird.inc.php b/drivers/adodb-pdo_firebird.inc.php
index 0ee5e02b6..f8847c3cc 100644
--- a/drivers/adodb-pdo_firebird.inc.php
+++ b/drivers/adodb-pdo_firebird.inc.php
@@ -32,14 +32,6 @@ class ADODB_pdo_firebird extends ADODB_pdo
 
 	var $arrayClass = 'ADORecordSet_array_pdo_firebird';
 
-	function _init($parentDriver)
-	{
-		$this->pdoDriver = $parentDriver;
-		//$parentDriver->_bindInputArray = true;
-		//$parentDriver->hasTransactions = false; // // should be set to false because of PDO SQLite driver not supporting changing autocommit mode
-		//$parentDriver->hasInsertID = true;
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Gets the version iformation from the server
 	 *
@@ -243,12 +235,6 @@ public function dropSequence($seqname = 'adodbseq')
 		return $this->Execute("DROP SEQUENCE $seqname");
 	}
 
-
-	public function _affectedrows()
-	{
-		return fbird_affected_rows($this->_transactionID ? $this->_transactionID : $this->_connectionID);
-	}
-
 	public function genId($seqname = 'adodbseq', $startID = 1)
 	{
 		$getnext = ("SELECT Gen_ID($seqname,1) FROM RDB\$DATABASE");