Raid Card and Dropped Frames Issue

HRMaddie wrote on 4/21/2005, 11:14 AM
I installed a Highpoint RocketRaid 133 card into my machine a few months ago, since then I have not been able to transfer dv tapes without dropping a lot of frames. I have scoured the internet for help and so far can not find a solution.

1)Puchased a separate Maxtor and connected to motherboard IDE
2)Made sure the hard drives were set to DMA
3)Changed PCI location of firewire card to make sure IRQs were not being shared
4)Shut down antivirus, InCD (Nero) and other apps when attempting to capture
5)Tried capturing using WinDV which uses a buffer system to prevent dropped frames
6)Tried capturing using Sony Movie Studio and Ulead Videostudio
7)Tried various tapes to make sure it wasn't a bad tape
8)Tried capturing directly to separate IDE hard drive, closing everything down, etc.
9)Defragged hard drive
10)Did the XP fix for firewire speed

I never had a problem until I installed the raid card.

Asus A7V8X-X
Athlon XP 2600
1 gig RAM - 2 512 meg Kingston sticks
Highpoint RocketRaid 133 - Raid 1
2 80 gig Maxtors - connected to Raid card
1 250 gig Maxtor
Plextor 708A
Liteon DVD Rom
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

I am willing to try just about anything at this point. My next step is to break the array and go back to my original set-up.



Thanks

Comments

discdude wrote on 4/21/2005, 7:36 PM
"Old" VIA based boards are notoriously bad with high bandwidth devices like RAID controllers (I personally think there are bad at everything - but that's just me).

First, I would start with making sure you have the latest BIOS for both your motherboard and the Highpoint RAID card. Then I would make sure to load the latest VIA Hyperion 4-in-1 drivers.

Good Luck.
HRMaddie wrote on 4/25/2005, 4:40 PM
I disconnected my raid card from the pci slot, connected my o/s hard drive to the motherboard and all of a sudden no dropped frames (I didn't have to close any applications, too). Not sure what my solution is going to be, either purchase a new motherboard for a faster PCI bus with a 1394 connection, hardware raid card or just forgo the raid.