Mac book pro does not support more than 1 firewire

I had trouble saving my projects to external hard drive. I met with a Pro at the apple store. Claim that while using a firewire to import a project...brand new Mac Book pro cannot support 2 firewires at a time. An error comes up. So I simply used a USB to my external hard drive. was told this is not recommended but what is alternative?...Is it true I cannot use 2 firewires at once?

Hello Mary,
I am reading between the lines, but it sounds like you want to connect a camcorder and an external firewire hard drive to your MacBook Pro at the same time ... and capture your video in FCE using the external hard drive as your capture scratch disk. Is this correct?
This can be done, and is done by many users, however SOME camcorders and SOME external firewire hard drives do not work very well together.
What make/model camcorder do you have, what make/model external hard drive(s) do you have?

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