Canon DV30 no recognized by FCP 6.0.5

Fellow FCPers,
I just bought our first HD camcorder and FCP won't recognize it.
The first time I tried it, log and capture comes up with no communications. Camera is on PLAY.
I trashed the FCP prefs and tried again. Now I can control the camera in log and capture, but when you try and capture, no go.
The Camera shows up in the firewire active devices list.
Quicktime is 7.6, all HDV drivers look like they are in the right place.
Any hints?
John

In addition to Jerry's suggestion,
Canon cams do not always play nice when other FireWire devices are connected to the computer and share the same FireWire bus.
To test, disconnect all other FW devices and try the camera again.
If you are capturing to an external FireWire drive, you have the following options:
Connect the camera to the second port on the external drive, if there is one. This will sometimes work.
Purchase and install another FireWire card to create a second bus.
Install extra drives in your Mac Pro and capture to those instead. You can have up to 4 drives in the Pro without further modifications.

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