[MacDV] External Hard Drive Issues & Questions

[Gerhard Kuhn]

I do the same set up with 800 mzh 15" iMac and it works well.  I used 
to plug the camera on one fire-wire port and the drives on the other 
and then I would have the capture sputter and eventually stop within a 
minute.  When I daisy chained them no more problems.  Last summer I 
added a second firewire drive to the chain and I can capture to either 
external and the internal drive with no problems.  Both of my drive are 
by LaCie and I know that the original drive has Maxtor guts not sure of 
the bigger drive.

Gerhard Kuhn

On Jan 25, 2004, at 2:16 PM, William Hofius wrote:

>
> Because my PowerBook has only one FireWire port, if I am using the 
> external hard drive, I need to connect the digital video camera to the 
> second FireWire port on the hard drive.