Inconsistent framerates capturing from 1200a deck

My assistant is loading material shot @ 24fps DVCPRO HD 720p using the Panasonic 1200a deck - this is material shot @ 24fps on the Varicam. We've had a problem in the past with editing material loaded at 59.94fps, in 23.98 timelines, so this time we are making absolutely certain that the material is loaded 720p24 @ 23.98fps. He starts by testing a few mins, settings on the deck set to factory default, and all is well. But he has disovered that if his clips are longer than ~9mins, the material switches from 23.98 to 59.94. ***? Basically, with the same piece of material on tape, no camera cuts, if he digitises an 8 min chunk, it comes in 720p60 @ 23.98fps. If he stretches it to 10mins, it has become 720p60 @ 59.94. What is going on?
FCP 6.0.3 on Quad Xeon, OSX 10.4.11

I assume you know about setting the counter on the deck to user bits to verify your frame rate. second last two columns show the shooting rate (normally "seconds") and the first number of the last pair (normally frames) shows frequency. 5 for 59.94 6 for actual 60. It will detect in fast forward and rewind. Something from the days of hardware FRC. When I've had trouble with captures before I'll verify that the frame rate is encoded in the user bits. It is possible to get into the menus on camera and not have the frame rate encoded in the user bits. hopefully this is not the issue you are dealing with, but worth verification.

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