FCP 5.1 - suddenly can't capture

I was batch capturing 36 clips to a 250GB USB 2.0 HD which had been working fine, and which had >200GB free.
It seemed to be crunching the hard drive in some sort of loop, and capturing had stopped about 20 clips in. I couldn't get out of the batch capture; escape didn't do anything. I couldn't force quit. Ultimately I had to reboot.
Disk Utility says the external drive is fine.
Now, however, I can't capture anything, and all the in and out points I had set on these clips are gone. The media start and end still appear, but no ins and outs.
I tried loading up one of the autosave files, but the same situation exists.
I tried opening a new project, logging a random in and out point, and capturing - but nothing happens. A capturing window opens, but the window is black and doesn't go anywhere - plus, I can't escape out of it.
There is still communication with the camcorder; if I restart FCP, I can control the deck with play, rewind, etc., but I can't capture.
I tried deleting the com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist file - no effect.
Help!

Glad you were able to re-establish contact.
Now let's think about why this happened.
USB2 has a burst transfer rate that is higher than Firewire 400 and on the surface seems like a likely candidate for a capture scratch drive. However, when we look more closely at what constitutes a video stream we'll see it is not short little bits of data that can be written (like a Word document) - it is a veritable torrent of bits flowing down the data pipe. If the Word bits get interupted, no matter, the drive will finish placing them when it gets back to the file - it is a static document and will not be harmed by the interuption. But video a highly time sensitive sequence and if it is interupted, there will be serious consequences for the file integrity.
To put this is a more technical way, USB does not operate in an isosyncronos manner - that is it does not have the ability to command the entire bandwidth of bus and so, if push comes to shove, the data stream (aka your capture) will be compromised. The result of a compromised write operation is as you have described.
The long term solution to your issue is to either switch to firewire 400/800 drives or SATA internal/external drives. USB2 is not only not supported, it is decidedly not recommended.
Good luck.
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