Hard Drive disappearing

Hi,
With weddings I usually capture all media and photos before I start editing, but sometimes I get more photos, so if I switch my GL2 from VCR to CAM sometimes FCP6 stops responding, so what I do is, close FCP, then switch GL2 to CAM, open FCP and Log&Capture photos, then quit FCP, switch GL2 to VCR and open FCP again. The problem is that by this last step FCP stops responding and when I quit I see my hard drive(media) disappeared, so I have to restart my G5 to have the hard drive back on desktop. Any ideas, please. Thanks!

Johnny
G5, 10.5, dual 2g, 2.5 ram, FCStudio2

I'm very confused as to what you're doing.
Are you shooting stills with the GL2?

Don't those stills just end up on the tape? If so, why would you need to switch from VCR mode to camera while editing?

Messing with a connected FireWire device while FCP is working is always risky to other devices that are connected at the same time, in this case your hard drive.


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Yes shooting stills with GL2, but don't record on tape, go directly to Log&Capture, I think is faster and they even get numbers for each photo in sequence.

Johnny

Is the GL2 Firewire daisychained i.e. connected through the hard drive by any chance?

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Johnny

Do you by any chance have FW 400 AND FW 800 connected?

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