[MacDV] Re: External Hard Drive Issues & Questions

[Dorothy Hennings]

I have a 15" flat panel iMac and I have two La Ce drives daisy-chained 
into one fire-wire port and my Sony camcorder into the other and I too 
have had no sputter or stop problems with iMovie capture from camcorder.
George (and Dorothy)
On Sunday, January 25, 2004, at 03:39 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

> 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.
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