Canon HV30 compatibility with FW800?

Hi. I have a Canon HV30 and two iMacs - the first iMac is a 5 year old power-pc based iMac with a 6-Pin FW400 port. The second iMac is about 1 day old - and has just a single 9-pin FW800 port.
The camera is not recognized by the new iMac.
The camera is recognized just fine by the old iMac.
We're using both iMovie and Final Cut Express.
I have taken the entire setup to the genius bar at the apple store and spent 2 hours on the phone with support where we have tested the following:
1. FW port on the new iMac works fine with FW800 devices (we tested with a disk drive)
2. FW port on the new iMac works fine with an older FW400 Canon video camera
3. tried a new 4 pin (from the camera) to 9 pin cable
4. done every kind of hardware reset they could think of on the computer
They are stumped. They left me with "must be a compatibility issue between this particular camera and the newer FW800 protocol or else it's a hardware problem, though we can't explain why the camera works fine on your older iMac". One last item - when we connect the camera - the Firewire section of the hardware display window says "Unable to list firewire devices" meaning that whatever is coming through from the camera to the computer is totally confusing the computer.
Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated!!!

Hi to everybody.
I've the same problem with Snow Leopard and Canon HV30. My machine is iMac 27" I5 with 8GB of RAM.
I checked my firewire port with firewire HardDisk and all was fine. So the firewire HW hasn't any problem.
The camcorder wasn't never detected by Snow Leopard. I've the update S.O. running Mac OS X 10.6.2.
I used several cables 9pin to 4 pin and also with adpters, but the camera was not detected... never detected.
I also tried to connect the camera on 27" Base (Core2 duo) running on shops: the camera was detected without problems. So i think that the problem is on firewire drivers on the operative system.
Any solution?
Message was edited by: mborrelli

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