ITunes iPod update slow, LaCie drive sputters

I have my iTunes music on a LaCie 500GB external Firewire drive. The library file is on my Mac. When I try to update my iPod using iTunes 7, the drive seems to "click off" after each song, then seems to restart itself for the next song. The updating process is extraordinarily and unacceptably slow (1 song every 30 seconds) when the iTunes "Devices" screen is showing. The updating process is faster (5-10 songs every 30 seconds) when I make another screen (e.g., the Library) visible, but the LaCie drive still "clicks off" every now and then. This behavior seems new with iTunes 7 and is extremely annoying. What's the problem?

follow up... during a second round of updates, the problem did not occur. Very odd.

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Moin,
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mein Betriebssystem erkennt den iPod nicht als Wechseldatenträger und der Softwareupdater / iTunes erkennt den iPod ebenfalls nicht aber der iPod wird trotzdem aufgeladen.
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