Firewire800 hard drive and dv camera problems

Currently I have two Lacie FireWire 400 drives daisy chained together, using the back FireWire 400 port, as well as a Lacie FireWire 800 drive using the back FireWire 800 port. I have a canon dv camera plugged into the front firewire port as well.
When all the drives and the camera are on, and I try to open Final Cut Pro 4.5, the FCP gets hung up - with the spinning wheel of death.
This set up worked fine before the firewire 800 drive was added today.
Any ideas why?

Four devices, and one firewire bus.
And you are using the front (problematic) port for your cam.
Anyway, some cameras do not play well with FW 800 devices, usually Canon from what I read. Particularly true with FCP 4.5 and 5.x
http://www.adamwilt.com/Tidbits.html#FireWireFrustrations
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