Fcp capturing to system drive

I only have one drive set as a scratch disk in fcp....only one is showing in the settings window and is checked to capture everything. It's a 160 GB drive external with nothing on it. I've used it several times.
I captured about 50 or 60 GB of footage last night and all of it captured to my system drive! There's nothing on the external drive at all.
Any ideas?
thanks...nancy
power mac G5
2 gb ram
OS 10.4.9
QT 7.1.5
FCP 5.1.4
Lacie 160 GB external FW drive

update:
I moved all of the captured files to the correct scratch disk (the external drive) and reconnected them, and now it's capturing to that drive. So right now it's okay. But I'd still like to know why it all of a sudden captured to the system drive all on it's own. Was it something I did somewhere? I'd hate to think it is just going to choose the system drive whenever it wants to!!!
I only have one drive set as a scratch disk in
fcp....only one is showing in the settings window and
is checked to capture everything. It's a 160 GB drive
external with nothing on it. I've used it several
times.
I captured about 50 or 60 GB of footage last night
and all of it captured to my system drive! There's
nothing on the external drive at all.
Any ideas?
thanks...nancy
power mac G5
2 gb ram
OS 10.4.9
QT 7.1.5
FCP 5.1.4
Lacie 160 GB external FW drive
Power Mac G5 dual 2ghz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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