Ejecting a Firewire DV camera daisy chained vis a External Firewire HD

I have my firewire DV camera daisy chained via my firewire external Hard drive.
When I unplug my firewire dv camera, after a little while I get a message on my mac that a device was removed incorrectly and the external firewire dirve dismounts.
This only happens after I have unplugged my DV cam, so am I supposed to eject the cmera somehow??
It doesn't show as an external drive so I wouldn't have a clue where to even start looking.
Any ideas?

This only happens after I have unplugged my DV cam, so am I supposed to eject the cmera somehow??
This would depend on the "capturing" application. In most cases you simply tell the application that capture is completed by pressing a "Done" button, disconnect button, ESC key, or similar action to let the application know that it can close the device protocol and allow the device to be removed.

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