Still cant capture to external disc

so i spent the money and got a new macbook pro 2.33,
installed FCP 2,
have a 250G external drive on the Firewire 800.
same problem as before with a canon XH-A1.
will not capture to external drive,
reports "general error" when hit escape,
all looks good until then.
can capture to the system drive.
this seems to be a particular problem with this camera and a powerbook/macbook.
anyone got this combination to work?

Mark,
I have a MacBook Pro as yours, a Canon PAL MVX4i (same as NTSC Optura 600), and some FW LaCie.
Contrary to other people experience in general I have no problem whatsoever to capture to the external disks, if the external disks are LaCie FW400 Porsche (I have 3 of them I bought at different times, the last one a month ago) - It does NOT work instead if I try to capture to the LaCie Rugged 80GB (FW800)!
When I successfully capture to the LaCie Porsche drives they are all 3 daisy chained to the FW800 port with an adapter cable, and the protocol I use is Firewire PAL (NOT Basic, but the full featured one); it works with the camera either connected to the MBP FW400 port or daisy chained with the other 3 disks. BTW this same configuration works also with my iMac G5.
But when I tried to capture to the Rugged drive (it was connected by itself to the same F800 port) FCE and FCP were getting stuck when I tried to start capturing, and the only way to resume was to either disconnect the camera or to force quit FCx.
This is my experience. A few more notes.
The 2 ports in the MacBook are based on the same FW bus (you can check it in the System Profile), and this seems to be the problem for some Canon/LaCie configurations. That's why in general using a FW card (with a dedicated FW bus) should solve the problem, even if personally I never used it.
The common opinion is that in fact there is (in some configurations) some incompatibility between the Canon and LaCie FW protocols.
Piero

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