Firewire won't see canon dv camera

I just got a Canon firewire dv camera. On my G4 ibook it connects to iMovie and imports flawlessly.
When I connect it to my G5 which I prefer to use for video, it says "no camera connected", and the system profiler says "unknown device" connected to the firewire port.
What can I do to get the G5 to see the camera? I tried all the "help" suggestions to no avail.
Thanks,
Jinny

AHHH thankyou, after spending 3 hours on the phone with Canon, Apple and the hard drive manufacture i was at the end of the line - finnally someone understand this issue.
For two years i used Canon Camcorder zr85 with no problems,
including the use of a Firewire drive at the same time.
In the past year there were various systems updates.
In the past week another firewire drive was added. So thats 2 drives, one Canon.
A week later, after sucessfully using both drives with Canon,
loading at least 2 hours of video in, the next time i go to use it
turning on the camera puts the icon in a spin looking and looking
So i turn off the camera and the icon goes back to an arrow.
simply, no camera connection.
On person said that installing another internal Firewire port (100.00)
would allow the camera (firewire) to not conflict with the drives
Anyone actually done this with success???
Anyone tried something else that worked?

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