Major problems using DV cam with external drive connected. HELP

I am running Final Cut Pro 5.0.4 and Quicktime Pro 7.0.4 and I want to use one of my external Firewire drives as my scratch disk, and when I connect my Canon GL2 FCP either crashes if it is open, or hangs when trying tro start uo if external hard drives are connected. As I need to use an external to capture to I really need to resolve this A.S.A.P.
Thanks in advance for your reading and replying to my post,
Sebastian

firewire external hd is a perfectly acceptable medium for capturing footage. it works pretty flawlessly and has little issues or problems
This type of blanket statement really can't be supported in my view.
There are issues with single bus firewire captures.
And many cams, including Canons, don't play well with firewire hard drives on the same bus.
Glad it works for you, but that's doesn't mean it works for everyone.
You might want to take a peak at this:
http://www.adamwilt.com/Tidbits.html#FireWireFrustrations

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