"Dropped Frames Detected During Last Capture attempt."

After capturing from DV tape to FCE I get this message;
"Dropped Frames Detected During Last Capture attempt."
What is causing this, and is there anything I can do to fix it?

It is an old DV tape and recorder that I am backing up to the hard drive, and the only other fire wire device is the external drive that I use for a scratch disc. I am using a pass thru fire wire port on the external drive. I successfully ingested 14 other older DV tapes without this message, so it could be a bad tape.
I did sample the video in different areas and it appears OK so far.

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Same issue here. I've been capturing well with the same setup months ago and have not had this issue until now.
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