Spinning ball cursor with FCP 6.0.1, OS 10.5, and Focusrite Saffire LE...

Hi,
I've had a problem now ever since I purchased and connected a Focusrite Saffire LE FW400 audio interface to my Intel MBP. I've had the same problem under both 10.4 and 10.5 with both iMovie '08 and FCP 6.0.1.
In essence, whenever my FW400 audio interface is connected, I continually get the 'spinning ball' cursor as I scrub over my video timelines. With the Focusrite disconnected, everything is fine. This happens regardless of whether or not the material being edited is on the internal MBP drive, or my external FW800 drive.
Any ideas? I'm running the latest Focusrite drivers, and even tried the apple firewire audio driver updated issued for 10.4 all to no avail.
Is this a systemic problem of Firewire audio interfaces? Or did I choose poorly on brand? Anyone else running a similar configuration?
Thanks!
Ty

Welcome to the forum.
Could be a brand/driver issue. Lots of people around here running the Tascam firewire mixers with no issues to report.
One suggestion is to pick up a Expresscard 34 firewire card for the laptop. It will create a second bus that will allow you to isolate the external firewire hard drive from the mixer.
Otherwise, no real suggestions. sorry.
x

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