My GL2 will not be recognized with Imovie8 when I have my LaCie firewire drive mounted. Imovie recognizes the GL2 when I unmount the drive. Canon support says its a power issue (2 firewire devices suck too much power on my IMac 5)

Workarounds?

If you are daisy-chaining (computer->drive->camera) try adding a powered Firewire hub (4-pin Firewire, as with cameras, doesn't use power leads) and branching (computer->hub, hub->drive, hub->camera).

Video transfer is a continuous stream, it may be that the traffic through the drive exceeds the drives Firewire control (the drive may be more asynchronous than the synchronous video).

Also, if you are trying to capture to the drive, you could be doubling the traffic -- camera -> computer, buffered, then computer -> drive. You might, even with the hub, need to capture to an internal hard-drive first, and later copy to the external drive.

I'm haveing the exsact trouble with my bran new imac the latest imac with a 1 T LaCie hard drive as soon as I unmont the LaCie it all works as it should I'm tacking the whole mess over to the tec next week I'll copy the reply from this site and take them with me also kept you posted thanks all.

Tim G