Daisy chaining LaCie and Canon videocamera

I have a PowerBook G4 , a canon video cam and a LaCie external drive, I have no trouble capturing to the internal drive but when I try to capture to the LaCie, an error message says it can't see the camera. I have the LaCie firewired to the Powerbook and the Canon firewired to the LaCie. thank you joanlvh
ps I have read the achieved discussions on this topic.

I have followed Ian and Skydo's much appreciated advice. After capturing on my internal drive, I moved all the files to my LaCie external drive. In the past I have always begun editing by following Tom Wolsky's : “Capture your video in large chunks. Then from the Mark menu select the clips and run DV Start/Stop Detection. That'll put markers at each shot change, making segments. Twirl open the disclosure triangle for marquee select the the markers. Use Modify>Make subclips. This will make each of the shots separate clips in your Browser.” With my captured material in large chunks on the La Cie the DV Start Stop Detection runs, but it does not list any segment to select and the Make subclips is greyed out. ??? thanks joanlvh

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