OT: Capture Prob

groovedude wrote on 1/17/2006, 9:30 AM
I just installed a secondary (slave) IDE drive, a Seagate 7200rpm 300GB. As a primary drive I have a Western Digital IDE 7200rpm 120GB.

Primary has Win XP and programs on it. Secondary is for data storage.

Here is the weird thing. Today I go to capture video onto the secondary and it starts to capture the first few seconds no problem then it seems to freeze and I get nothing but dropped frames.

So I change the output to save captured movie to the primary drive and it works like a charm.

I can't remember but I think this is the first time I captured to the new secondary drive. Works fine for data storage but why the heck is it not capturing correctly? I'm pretty sure I defragged it recently.

I can even capture fine to an external 300GB firewire hd but not this internal secondary drive. Any ideas why I'm having this problem?

XP spk.1
2GB RAM
Using WinDV to capture, never had any problems until this new drive

Comments

rs170a wrote on 1/17/2006, 10:05 AM
Did the drive reset to PIO mode instead of (U)DMA somehow?

Mike
TeetimeNC wrote on 1/17/2006, 10:06 AM
groovedude, be sure you secondary IDE channel is set to "DMA if available".

-jerry
groovedude wrote on 1/17/2006, 11:37 AM
I'm pretty sure it is, but if not, how do I check this and set it to DMA?

thanks guys
UlfLaursen wrote on 1/17/2006, 11:43 AM
It could also be because the drive is a slavedrive. Two drives on the same channel can be trouble.
You could try a HDD transfermeassure-program like:

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach
it is free and good.

/Ulf
rs170a wrote on 1/17/2006, 11:43 AM
On your desktop:
Right click My Computer - Manage - click on Device Manager - double click IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers - double click Secondary IDE Channel - select Advanced Settings. Make sure Transfer Mode is set to DMA if available.

Mike
groovedude wrote on 1/17/2006, 1:39 PM
Ok did exactly what you said, this is weird, here's what it states in the Advanced Settings Window:

Device 0
Device Type: Auto Detection (greyed out)
Transfer Mode: DMA if available
Current Transfer Mode: PIO Mode (greyed out)

Device 1
Device Type: Auto Detection (greyed out)
Transfer Mode: DMA if available
Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA Mode 2 (greyed out)

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I'd have to look at the literature again but I'm almost positive it was a Seagate Barracuda, wouldn't that have DMA support? I'm pretty sure "Device 0" is the Seagate drive. Very dissapointing to have a $300 drive I can't capture with.

What if I set "Device 1" to PIO, would I then be able to set "Device 0" to DMA?

thanks Mike