Final Cut with external HDDs

I have an Power Mac G5 Quad with 4 external Maxtor hard drives, all the same model. When I attempt to export media or render files in FCP to HDD 1 & 2 and the media is over a certain size, then it will not work. On drives 3 & 4 I do not have this problem.
I am aware that there is a possibility that the drives are differently formatted, which would explain the problem, but surely when rendering on drives 1 & 2, it would just create multiple render files rather than one short one and then stopping.
Also if I try to copy a file over 4GB to drives 1 and 2, it just cancels it.
Anybody got any advice as to how to get around this problem?
Thanks
Dave

Andy is most likely correct on this.
Here's how to see what the exiting format is and to reformat if nec.
- Right (control) click on the drive icon on the desktop.
- Select Get Info.
- The drive format will be listed at the General section at the top of the window.
If it is MS-DOS, you need to Reformat:
Warning: the following will ERASE all information from your disk. Move any files you wish to save to another disk before performing this operation!
Open Disk Utility> select the disk > Erase > Select Mac OS Extended as the format (Mac OS Extended is HFS+)
good luck.
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