AJA IOLA and fire wire

I'm confused. I am setting up a FCP system on a brand new G5 dual 2.7 gHz with a 375 GB hard drive. I am using an AJA IO LD for input. From what I read, I can't digitize to the internal hard drive if the AJA is also using this hard drive (which sort of seems like a waste of 300 GB of perfectly fine space). I will be using a DVCam DSR 80 and a Sony Beta UVW 1800? as component input sources. Can I digitize to an EXTERNAL 7200 RPM Firewire hard drive?

Ronnie,
I do have an extra firewire card - but its a recent extra to my system to simply increase the number of my firewire sockets.
I've been using the AJA with the standard sockets for about a year with no problems, (observing the AJA / video deck thing that I mentioned in my previous post.)
As to running the AJA with Firewire video decks / cameras:
I've had conflicting advice as to whether a PCI card for extra firewire sockets helps with firewire conflicts when using the AJA and a firewire video deck.
Some have said that the 400 and 800 sockets are on independent busses but again others have said that it may still get confused.
Some say that the PCI card is on a completely different buss and so will not be confused with firewire connections on the actual Mac, others disagree.
I prefer to avoid conflicts, (my life is complicated enough and I like to keep my edit suite in a friendly mood...) so I just run the AJA or the firewire DSR-11 deck.
As to normal editing once the material is digitised, then feel free to run your AJA on a 400 port and a drive on either a 400 or 800 port.
LEE.

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Rick, welcome to the forum.
There is no software necessary for Firewire (IEEE 1394a). The driver is installed with the OS.
Here is the Motherboard Specifictions page for the computer. It only shows that there is a Firewire (IEEE 1394a) port (# 11) in the Back I/O ports.
Here is an article that shows the comparison of speed of Firewire vs USB. Firewire was developed by Apple.
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Hi,
I admit I have never heard of IEEE 1396 before you posted it here.
However a quick googling came up with quite some hits.
To my knowledge (and from the Google hits) it seems that IEEE 1396 is used to determine a 6-pin to 6-pin cable connection, whereas IEEE 1394 is used for a 6-pin to 4-pin cable connection.
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