I must apologize

Sonisfear wrote on 12/23/2005, 10:27 AM
I few months ago I posted my disatisfaction for Vegas rendering times.

Only recently I have found out that my Dual 2.4 Xeon machine has been running slow due to the drives running in PIO and DMA mode. I spent major coin on the supermicro x5dal-tg2 motherboard and it can't get any ide drives including DVD burners to run pas PIO (this means that the CPU is used to do basic disk function). In my frustration I went out and went into debt to buy quad AMD machine only to run into different IDE issues.

Now that these are close to being resolved AMD machine I am still waiting for supermico to call me back after they could not resolve the issue. The issue is posted on thier FAQ web support I followed the direction and still can't get any ide device into DMA transfer.

I felt that I owed an apology to the Sony Vegas community for putting my slow render issues on Vegas.

I still beleive that Sony should focus R&D on GPU and 64 bit utilization but VEgas is still my wedding video editing best friend and shout out to Vasst Double Take.

Maybe for guys like me who use Vegas to make money but aren't PC guru's Vegas should recommend peice by peice and setup of the ultimate Vegas PC and the bang for the buck pc systems.

Anyway thanks Vegas for another profitable wedding video year.

And Happy New year to evryone else

Darin

Comments

Grazie wrote on 12/23/2005, 11:18 AM
Darin, yer a Proper Geezah! And no mistake!

G
Sonisfear wrote on 12/24/2005, 2:28 PM
:^)

Yeah I know....
ibliss wrote on 12/26/2005, 6:19 AM
WinXP puts drives (or drive controllers) into PIO when a certain number of errors/write fails have occured. IT's quite common to find CD drives stuck in this mode, because of the high number of burn failures or read failures.

Right click on My Computer, choose 'properties'

select the 'device manager' button in the 'hardware' tab page

expand 'ide/aptai' in the list.

right click on the secondary channel and choose 'uninstall' (or something like this). Windows will uninstall and then reinstall the device, and it should now be back in DMA mode.

Hope this helps - happy xmas.