Dropped Frames Only With 2nd Hard Drive

phantom wrote on 7/11/2004, 11:51 AM
I bought a 2nd hard drive (EIDE 7200 RPM - ATA100 - 160 GB) to dedicate moslty to video.

When I capture DV to my original drive, it works great. But when I capture to the new drive, I got tons of dropped frames.

What can I do? I'm running Windows XP. I thought maybe DMA was the issue, but I can't find where I can turn that on/off.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

Former user wrote on 7/11/2004, 1:46 PM
Is it an internal or external drive?

Dave T2
phantom wrote on 7/11/2004, 2:05 PM
It's internal. It's the secondary drive and the boot drive with the OS, etc. is the primary.
royor wrote on 7/11/2004, 6:01 PM
Go into your bios and set second HD to Ultra DMA 5 mode
IanG wrote on 7/12/2004, 1:22 AM
Check the DMA settings in Device Manager, too.

Ian G.
phantom wrote on 7/12/2004, 8:25 AM
Thanks for the responses.

I'll have to check the owners manual on getting to the bios settings. Unlike the old days, I don't see an oportunity to hit a key during boot up to get there. Anyone else know off hand? I use XP.

As far as checking DMA in device manager, I checked the properties of the drive in device manager, and I saw nothing about it.
IanG wrote on 7/12/2004, 9:10 AM
Under device manager you need to check the properties of the IDE controllers. They should be set to "DMA if available", NOT PIO.

Ian G.
phantom wrote on 7/12/2004, 9:16 AM
I'll have to try that when I get home. I just looked at the Device Manager on my PC here at work, and I see it now. Thanks a lot for the info. Hopefully that's the answer.
phantom wrote on 7/12/2004, 4:56 PM
Ok, I'm in business.

I went into the IDE properties in the Device Manager, but the transfer mode was set to PIO and couldn't be changed. So, telling it to use "DMA if available" wouldn't help. So, I went into the BIOS settings and changed the drive from "off" to "auto". That changed PIO to DMA.

Everything works great. Thanks for the help.