Scratch video disk is full when I'm trying to print video

I'm using FCE HD and I finished a 21' project without problems.
My scrath disk is an external 140 Gb laCie, and It have more than 100 Gb free space (system settings)
When I'm trying to print video, after two hours working transcoding video from Intermediate Codec to HD format, the process is break out with this message: Your scratch video render is full.
But I think 100 Gb should be enough to do this operation. Is'nt it?
Thks

FCE starts cheking the camera mode input and then choose authomatly the right output. My Sony works with HDV stored under mpeg2.
In fact I've done this process previously without problems for bigger projects

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Solution suggested by PECourtejoie.
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