Camera Hard Drive computer via FW400

is it bad to run my camera through my firewire hardrive (or other firewire device with second port) to my computer? what probems will i run into? will playback to camera be effected? will capturing be effected?

Try it and find out. If you do run into difficulties, you'll need a firewire card (pci for powermac / pcmcia for powerbooks) to create a second bus for the camera.
cherios,

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