Hello, I have a G-4 mirror dual, running FCP 4 for the last few years, bought a new external firewire drive- Lacie 250 gb (porsche thing) firewire 400- on everything-I tried to capture standard DV with it for the first time and my 'capture now' window freezes up, had to force quit every time . Never used an external drive for FCP . Do I have to format/partition the drive ? Or are external FW drives simply not qualified to do this.- When I unplug it, 'capture now' works perfect onto internal drives
Thanks- Rodrigo

Yes, you need to format it. Use Disk Utility and reformat the drive as mac os extended (not journaled).

Jude,
Thanks for responding so promptly-I followed your advice and Bingo! I can continue to work, For some reason I thought FW drives were plug and play-Anyways I really appreciate your help and LAFCPUG -You guys are always saving my butt.
Sincerely, Rodrigo

They do sort of say on the box tha tthey are ready to use. But they lie.

Yes, especially deceiving is the minimal " Porsche'' designed graphic illustration packing with these lacie jobs. Design at the expense of clarity.- R