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I have a 17 inch MacBook Pro and a Canon Optura xi camcorder. I can't plug the LaCie d2 external drive into the 800 and the camcorder in the 400 firewire ports at the same time. The Mac recognizes one or the other but not both, whichever is plugged in first. I have plugged the camcorder into the 400 port on the LaCie, with the LaCie into the 800 port on the Mac but that did not work. I have plugged an external hard drive into the 400 port on the Mac and plugged the camcorder into a 400 port on the external hard drive and both work together on the Mac. When I was at the Apple store with the tech we plugged a Firelite external drive into the 400 port and the LaCie into the 800 port on the Mac and they both worked. At home I plugged the LaCie d2 into the 800 and my LaCie Rugged into the 400 and the Mac recognizes both hard drives.
I have talked to LaCie, Canon and Apple. LaCie and Canon said it was not thier problem. The tech at the Apple store and I worked on the issue for a couple hours with no luck.
Anyone?

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