Firewire and camera Canon

hi , my iMac 20'' with iLife '08 bought in december 2008 can't see the Canon MV400 camcorder ( I use the firewire 6 pin to mac and 4 pin to camera ; I have 2 port on my iMac: FireWire 6 pin and FireWire 800);
on a Mac+iLife '06 of my friend the camera works without any drivers . why not in my new iMac??
Canon have no driver for device.
please help me!!!

Hi Jouly
appart from the Canon camcorder, do you have other peripherirals connected to your mac through firewire interfaces ?
I have a old iMac G5, and a canon Camcorder too. I had the same behaviour you've described when I was trying to connect an external hard drive and the camcorder at the same time .
Each was connected to a separated firewire (400) plug. When disconnected the external hard drive, it went okay again
Cheers
Sylvain

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