Sony XDCAM PDW-D1 disc drive and FCPHD

Hey Everybody,
I just started working for my local National Broadcast affiliate and today they showed me the XDCAM gear they recently purchased. They have had trouble getting the PDW-D1 disc drive to talk to the MAC, let alone bring in footage to FCP. I quickly thumbed through the manual and it said to load the PC drivers. Well I said there is your problem this drive is not supported by MAC. They then said that the demo guys had it "barely" working.
Anyway does the PDW-D1 work with the MAC and FCPHD system, and if so how do I set it up so that they can use the disc drive and not the camera for digitizing, They bought the DVCAM version and not the 50MBPS version.
Thanks,
Alex

you should be able to access the drive via firewire using the AV/C (Audio/Video Control) protocol ... the same as you would footage stored on a DV tape.
using AV/C you can playback (and record) a DVCAM format stream
what you won't be able to do is mount the disc as a HD and browse the contents (no Mac driver support for file access management), nor can you use the MXF import component from flip4mac or softron's mxfconverter (as theres no ethernet link)

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