FireWire issue: 4 disks and DV cam

Hello,
I bought this new iMac Intel to do some basic (but GB crunchy) movie editing.
So on one FW channel, I plugged in my four 3.5" 250GB disks, all cascaded on the same channel. All of them have an external ower supply. Everything is great.
Now, I connect my Canon MXV10i DV cam on the other FW connector (the one close to USB ports) and although the cam can be controlled by iMovie, no image is display neither captured.
I have to "eject" my disks, wait for them to mechanically stop after unmount (still powered though), plug in the cam then re-mount the disks and the image comes perfect and can be captured.
Any idea?

Do you think there'll be a fix in a near future?
I'm no Apple employee, and if so, we don't commend on future products
all products get improved constantly, but many "errors" don't get corrected... for years, ask Karl or Matti, "unofficial keeper of iM bugs"/http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHDbugs.html...
I received some harsh critique for mentioning the following, but, again:
all these iApps are consumer toys apps.
and they have a concept of usage underneath...
look, how SJ presents the iApps on his keynotes:
some stills from the weekend, a video of a dog-wash... boom!done... the typical Daddy-does-movies... as me!
no word of "318 minutes, 2564 transitions, 311 stills, modiyfied themes, plug-ins for multi layers, usage of level0 raids..." etc....
have a look at the used metaphor in iMovie:
sorting slides.
that is a >50 year old "technique"... even me understands that.
pro attitude? use pro tools. that easy. (still trying to learn FCE for about a year...)
back-to-topic, sorry for rant:
de-plug ext. drives
import onto internal drive
drag clips/projects onto ext drives later....

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