external hd's freezing up the log and capture

I can capture to my 2nd internal western digital fine. When I try to capture to my new la cie, fcp locks up with a wheel of death. I also can not see a preview for capture now. Can someone help me get this set up so that I can capture to my external. I am nearly out of space on my internal. Yes, reformatted correctly. Now I find that I can not capture to any of the other drives here. 1 external acomdata 250gb. 1 la cie 500 gb d2,and the internal mac hd. The only one that seems to work is the internal second drive western digital 400gb. So weird... it even started to have some problems. I found that the auto save and waveform caches were set to the mac hd. after changing to the wd400 It worked fine again. Still.. the others wont work. I press play on the camera and capture now after. Then I get the wheel of death and lock up of the log and capture window. I sooo need help on this one. Anyone with solutions would be great
Thank You
Scott

Take the deck out of your FireWire chain and see what happens.

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What exactly do you mean firewire chain?

Thats because your camera and external drive are all using the same firewire bus.
I would suggest transfering data from your internals to the externals then capture to your internal drive, capturing to an external is asking for trouble.

Derek

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