Thanks Prema. I’m tried it out yesterday with my Lacie d2 1tb FireWire 800 everything works fine. And canon e1 is a god send, I’ve been using it for a month.
I’m skeptical about accessing the data on a cold start did give me the beach ball. Hopefully while intensive editing it doesn’t show up.
Just a question, is this kind of ext hdd setup preferable or using an internal data hdd (not the boot drive) is better?