I just installed a new Seagate 160 GB HD into my system. To make room for it, I pulled out one of the system CD RW drives and installed it as a slave on the secondary controller.
My system sees the drive, addresses all of it's 160 GB of space, and I've formatted it as NTSF (I'm running winXPProSp1).
My first test render to that drive plays back with rhythmic start/stop characteristic that makes me think DMA may not be enabled.
Problem is, I can't fugure out how to check this from within XP. I looked up DMA in my online XP help file, and there is some discussion about going through device manager to resource settings, but when I do that for this drive there is no resource settings tab.
I don't know why MS doesn't just give straight answers on searches like this. There can't be many reasons for a user to search for "DMA" other than wanting to check that setting for a hard drive. Instead of a straight answer, I get this description of DMA and a whole run around which, when followed, leads me to a point that doesn't solve the problem.
I'm guessing it's simple - hope someone here can point me in the right direction.
DMA may not be my problem, so, if you have other suggestions, please share them.
I'm a long time Vegas user (2.x through 5.0). Typically, I render to firewire drives. I decided to install this last drive internally because my system did not recognize it as 160 GB when installed in the FW enclosure.
I'm not sure if I could have overcome that via firewire (someone clue me in if I could have), so, since I had an extra CD drive that I never use, I pulled it to install this Seagate internally.
My system recognized it right away as a 160 GB drive.
Thanks for any help.
Caruso
My system sees the drive, addresses all of it's 160 GB of space, and I've formatted it as NTSF (I'm running winXPProSp1).
My first test render to that drive plays back with rhythmic start/stop characteristic that makes me think DMA may not be enabled.
Problem is, I can't fugure out how to check this from within XP. I looked up DMA in my online XP help file, and there is some discussion about going through device manager to resource settings, but when I do that for this drive there is no resource settings tab.
I don't know why MS doesn't just give straight answers on searches like this. There can't be many reasons for a user to search for "DMA" other than wanting to check that setting for a hard drive. Instead of a straight answer, I get this description of DMA and a whole run around which, when followed, leads me to a point that doesn't solve the problem.
I'm guessing it's simple - hope someone here can point me in the right direction.
DMA may not be my problem, so, if you have other suggestions, please share them.
I'm a long time Vegas user (2.x through 5.0). Typically, I render to firewire drives. I decided to install this last drive internally because my system did not recognize it as 160 GB when installed in the FW enclosure.
I'm not sure if I could have overcome that via firewire (someone clue me in if I could have), so, since I had an extra CD drive that I never use, I pulled it to install this Seagate internally.
My system recognized it right away as a 160 GB drive.
Thanks for any help.
Caruso