Can't render on slave hd

laz wrote on 6/27/2003, 7:33 AM
I've got no probs rendering an avi for ptt on master hd (partioned into 'c' and 'e'), but on my 120gb (partioned into 'h', 'i' and 'j' the render time is doubled, and when ptt there's hardly anything getting thro to dv cam. This hd was formatted into NTSC by w2k os then partioned using Partion Magic, but converted to fat32 with PM. Could this convertion be the prob?

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discdude wrote on 6/27/2003, 9:25 AM
What happened to "D", "F", "G"? The order in which drive letters are usually assigned are:
1) Internal HD (Starting with Primary Master, Pri Slave, Secondary Master, Sec Slave)
2) Internal CD (same order as above)
3) External (aka Removable) Drives
The drive order in your computer is kinda wonky.

Plus, I think you mean NTFS (NT File System) rather than NTSC (National Television Standards Committee). All things considered, FAT32 is acutally a little bit faster than NTFS (although FAT32 limits your max file size to 4GB).

Did you recently run scandisk and defrag on your disks?
laz wrote on 6/28/2003, 5:29 AM
A bit of typing dyslexia ;o)

'd' is now my external hd (as previously assigned by w2k) ('h' was previously external, pre partioning and is now h, i and j internal), 'f' is cd-rom, 'g' is dvd-rom and 'e' is a partion of 'c'. So, should I re-assign - as maybe this could be the prob? BTW I scandisk and defrag wkly.
discdude wrote on 6/28/2003, 8:35 AM
I believe that drive order doesn't matter in Windows 2000.

In all older MS OS's, drive letters were assigned automatically by the system. Windows 2000 will follow that order by default, but I believe you can rename any disk (except C:) to whatever you want. However, I must admit that I am somewhat unfamiliar with some of the nuts-and-bolts inner workings of Windows 2000 (I use Win 98SE).

Anyway, it is just strange to see drive order like the way you have it but I don't think it makes a difference in W2K.

That's quite the alphabet soup you've got there.

So to recap you have:

Primary Master: C:, E:
Primary Slave: (F: - CD-ROM)?
Secondary Master: (H:, I:, J:)?
Secondary Slave: (G: - DVD-ROM)?
External Drive: D:
IanG wrote on 6/28/2003, 5:47 PM
Friends in Quantel tell me NTSC stands for Never Twice the Same Colour!

Could the problem with the disk be as simple as not having DMA enabled?

Ian G.
laz wrote on 6/29/2003, 3:10 AM
Thanks for your input guys.

DMA's enabled on all hd's. I think it could be a mobo issue - not being able to cope with so many hd's. First I'll try converting h, i and j to ntfs and see if that does it.