Drives dismount when I attach Firewire Camera?

I have several G-tech external drives daisy chained 800 firewire into the back of my macpro.
I need to transfer and capture Mini dv from a camera.
I patched the firewire from the camera to the front 400 firewire port.
This caused my drives to dismount.
I thought this might be to using the front bus- so I switched the camera Firewire to the back.
The same thing happens.
What is going on?
I haven't used firewire in awhile- but this was never a problem before.

People shouldn't be expected to stock their macs full of internal HDs if they already have useful hardware
Why not? They just spent over $3K for a fast machine, why hold it back with drives that run at half (or less) the speed of an internal SATA drive? When you figure you can get 750GB drives for ~$130 (or 500GB drives for under $90) it makes no sense to utilize firewire for editing.
The bus problems of certain cameras can be completely avoided by eliminating firewire drives from the computer. Let the camera have the whole bus.
Cheers,
x

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