External Firewire / FCP 4 Log and Capture

I recently upgraded from FCP 3 to 4 and am having problems logging footage to an external fire wire drive.

When I set my capture scratch to the external drive and capture the logged file the computer gets locked in thinking mode as if trying to find the drive.

As a result I log and capture to my local 80G drive and then move the files over to the external drive. This process takes a long time and as it turns out when I open the FCP file it gives me an error message saying it cannot find the project.

Can anyone help me find what I'm doing wrong. My objectives are to either 1) capture directly to the external, or
2) capture to my local drive and successfully move the project to the external.

Thoughts?

Error Code -36

Very frustrated trying to get logged footage captured in FCP 4 on my local to an external.

I got a test to work four hours ago, but now when trying to copy the files over from local to external I'm getting the following error message:

The finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "file name" could not be read or written. (Error code-36)

Any ideas?

Also, what is the best process of getting logged footage captured to an external drive?

Figured it out to be a bad fire wire cable or connection. Must use the USB which takes much longer.

FYI, I just read on another forum that error -36 when copying from local to external with the finder is most likely a problem with you fire wire cable or port.