DSR-11 crashes hard drives

are hard drives running off bus power or have their own power plug? should have their own for capture.

you might want to try a firewire repeater hub as well.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=Kramer+VS30FW+4-Port+FireWire-800+...


this will also protect against burnt firewire ports.

MacPro4,1 2.66GHz 8 core 12gigs of ram. GPU: Nvidia Geoforce GT120 with Vram 512. OS X 10.6.x; Camcorders: Panasonic AG-HPX170, Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

Have you tried rebooting computer after your daisy chain is set up?

Or if on a mac open disc utility and see if both devices are recognized there. If so mount them.

Have you tried using a camcorder in place of the deck for capture to see if the issue is not the deck?

Have you tried connecting the deck to the computer without the media drive? Maybe the deck has a bad firewire port or some other issue.

If deck does work solo, you could, as a workaround, capture from the deck to your desktop and then move not copy your media to your media drive once the deck is disconnected.

MacPro4,1 2.66GHz 8 core 12gigs of ram. GPU: Nvidia Geoforce GT120 with Vram 512. OS X 10.6.x; Camcorders: Panasonic AG-HPX170, Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.