AG HPX5000 Field Offload Directly To Drive

I'm the editor and am having a dickens of a time connecting an external drive to the HPX500 for field dumping in the PC Host Mode. I have an OWC bus powered drive that takes the tiny USB connector and the camera takes a square B connector and that cable does not exist - so far. I have cables w. the right connectors on one end each but the standard type a usb plug on the other. I ordered a fem to fem coupler and am crossing fingers. However for the moment field USB dumps are out of the question.

Which brings me to FW. I have connected my OWC bus powered drive using a FW400 to FC800 cable and get the warning "Too Many Targets"- and the drive does not seem to power as it does, say when I plug it into a pc or mac using the USB connection.

I have also connected the camera a 500gb My Book via fw 400 to fw 400 and get the hdd menu but all is grayed out except the bottom (verify?).

I have no trouble using log and transfer out of the camera into FCP, but the idea here is for the crew to bring me a hard drive with the day's work and not be burdened with shuttling the camera back and forth.

So my problem in a nutshell is this - how do you offload directly to a HDD without a puter. I am trying to keep this simple for the crew so they don't hav to mess w. a laptop.

Thanks in advance for an tips.

Cheers, Peter

Peter Tours
TnT Video Services, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale, FL