Firewire issues with DV camera

When connecting a Samsung VP-D305i mini DV camera to the firewire port (4pin to 6pin cable) Mac OS fails to recognise it.
I know this is an issue that has been covered in this forum a few times, but none of the answers seem to work for me. Furthermore rather than get the "unable to list firewire devices" in system profiler, system profiler displays it as unknown device. The following is given as the detail:
Manufacturer: 0xF0
Model: Unknown
GUID: 0xF000084139E5
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
Unknown Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10001
Unit Spec ID: 0xA02D
Final Cut Pro and iMovie both fail to work with the device, however they do recognise that a camera has been plugged in. My MacBook Pro has the Texas Instruments Firewire chipset, is this not supposed to be the more reliable chipset?
Flushing the SRAM doesn't work, I've formatted reinstalled Mac OS X, didn't work. The DV camera works fine through the same cable on my sister's MacBook. Furthermore, the DV port works 100% fine when booting my MacBook Pro, using Bootcamp, in XP. This port did work, I've used it before with iMovie in November last year. (with Bootcamp and Windows installed). Does anyone else know anything that may help?

Is the sound mixer physically connected to the mac via firewire? Maybe just unplugging it will help; there is only one firewire bus, and sometimes the capturing you are trying to capture from needs to be the only device connected.

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Sampling process 1092 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling UserEventAgent (pid 1092) every 1 millisecond
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2286 Thread_2503
2286 0xffc
2286 0x25ec
2286 0x385c
2286 CFRunLoopRun
2286 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
2286 mach_msg
2286 machmsgtrap
2286 machmsgtrap
2286 Thread_2603
2286 pthreadstart
2286 AVS::DestroyAVCDeviceController(AVS::AVCDeviceController*)
2286 CFRunLoopRun
2286 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
2286 mach_msg
2286 machmsgtrap
2286 machmsgtrap
2286 Thread_2703
2286 pthreadstart
2286 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*)
2286 HALRunLoop::OwnThread(void*)
2286 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
2286 mach_msg
2286 machmsgtrap
2286 machmsgtrap
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Sample analysis of process 1092 written to file /dev/stdout
CoreAudio sample ------------------------
Sampling process 1094 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling coreaudiod (pid 1094) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
2163 Thread_2503
2163 0xbfffff38
2163 0x2040
2163 0xcdf0
2163 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
2163 mach_msg
2163 machmsgtrap
2163 machmsgtrap
2163 Thread_2603
2163 pthreadstart
2163 AVS::DestroyAVCDeviceController(AVS::AVCDeviceController*)
2163 CFRunLoopRun
2163 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
2163 mach_msg
2163 machmsgtrap
2163 machmsgtrap
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2163 pthreadstart
2163 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*)
2163 HALRunLoop::OwnThread(void*)
2163 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
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2163 machmsgtrap
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After some investigation it occured that
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Can I hope for some help or can we expect driver update to get started at work with Leopard soon ?
Thx for answers

Hi all
Since I've updated to Leopard, I've encountered the same problem - without Sonnet Card - using FW800 port with a hard disk and ADVC100 in a FW400 port.
Only UserEvenAgent freezes.
Sampling process 162 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling UserEventAgent (pid 162) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
2255 Thread_2503
2255 0xbffffd40
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2255 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
2255 mach_msg
2255 machmsgtrap
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2255 machmsgtrap
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Perhaps an Apple update could be needed.
I'll try your solution - but loose the use of my 500Gb HD is difficult
Regards
Didier

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2802
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No data will be lost when doing the following: pull the battery while the device is ON. Replace after a minute, Let the device reboot 1-3 min, see if the problem is fixed, Thanks
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fact busy?
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