Slave harddrive = choppy video

ski wrote on 3/26/2006, 4:11 PM
I have been editing with Vegas6.0 and it has worked perfect. However I filled my 40 gig harddrive. So I installed an 80 gig harddrive as a slave. I then transfered video into the slave drive, and tried to work with the video. All of the video and audio came back choppy(dropped frames). So then I tried to capture new video to the new drive it too came in choppy. I then transfered video back into the original master harddrive and the video works perfect. What the heck do I do?

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jrazz wrote on 3/26/2006, 4:26 PM
What is the hard drive- brand, rpms, connection type, etc? What operating system are you using? Are your jumper settings correct? It could be CS instead of Slave. Did you attach it to a cable that is already in use? Try hooking it up by itself or make it master and hook your CD drive up as slave.

j razz
GaryKleiner wrote on 3/26/2006, 5:09 PM
Are you sure it's not on the same chain as slower devices such as an optical drive? That would be a no-no.

Gary
johnmeyer wrote on 3/26/2006, 5:15 PM
It should work just fine. My recommendation is to check whether DMA is set for your new drive. I'll bet it isn't.
ski wrote on 3/26/2006, 5:51 PM
Hard drive is 7200 Windows XP Triple checked to make sure it is set up as slave. It is hooked up on the same cable as the master harddrive. If I make the new hard drive the master do I have to put the entire operating system on the new hard drive?
ski wrote on 3/26/2006, 5:51 PM
How do I know what chain it is on?
Also the setting for both drives is DMA
jrazz wrote on 3/26/2006, 6:01 PM
Chain=cable.

Try hooking it up as a master on the secondary EIDE ribbon cable (your motherboard should have at least 2). Set it up to master. See how it works then. If it works fine, you know that it is the connection or something with the other setup. Also, you could try another ribbon cable just to make sure that the slave part of the cable is not messed up.

j razz
ski wrote on 3/26/2006, 6:11 PM
I tried both the existing cable for both drives , and the new cable that came with the new harddrive. I am going to try and hook it up on the secondary EIDE as master
tumbleweed wrote on 3/26/2006, 8:20 PM
..how about the jumpers on the new hard drive?.. is it set up to be a master or slave, or auto?...

..I have my AV drive set as a slave to my system drive, & it works like a charm...

..oops! didn't see all of jrazz post.. He already mentioned the jumpers..

..also check the controller, Primary IDE channel, to see if DMA is enabled...
rmack350 wrote on 3/26/2006, 9:00 PM
General overview:

Master drives go on the end of the cable, slaves go in the middle. Jumpers can be set to Cable Select, in which case the one on the end is automatically master and the one in the middle is automatically slave.

ATA 66, 100, 133 drives need an 80 conductor cable. You don't have to count the wires, just hold it up next to the optical drive's cable and compare the two. The hard drive's cable should look like it has a lot more wires.

You can't combine an optical drive and a hard drive on the same cable. The ODD will slow down the HDD.

Rob Mack
ski wrote on 3/27/2006, 3:30 AM
Last night I set up both hard drives as a master and hooked each one to the mother bored using a seperate cable. Unfortunatly I had to unhook my DVD-Rw and CD-RW However this seems to have worked. It did 2 things. First I transfered all the video to the new hard drive. This transfer took only about 20 minutes to transfer about 25gigs of video(the old detup took about 4-6 hours). Second all the video and audio worked perfect on both harddrives.
ski wrote on 3/27/2006, 3:33 AM
Now I have the problem of hooking up both of my Cd-RW and Dvd-RW. My thought is took make each one a slave to one of the hard drives? Any thoughts on that configuration.
Chienworks wrote on 3/27/2006, 5:25 AM
You should make the new hard drive be a slave of the old hard drive. Keep the two optical drives on their own cable separate from the hard drives.
johnmeyer wrote on 3/27/2006, 6:22 AM
You should make the new hard drive be a slave of the old hard drive. Keep the two optical drives on their own cable separate from the hard drives.

I agree. That is how Polywell configured my computer.
rmack350 wrote on 3/27/2006, 2:16 PM
This is how it has to be. You can't mix hard drives on the same ribbon cable as an optical drive. If you do you'll get slow choppy playback.

Rob
ski wrote on 3/27/2006, 2:31 PM
If I make my new hard drive the master,does that mean I have to transfer the operating system to the new master hard drive?
Chienworks wrote on 3/27/2006, 2:42 PM
Yes. Unless your old drive is failing don't do that. Leave the new drive as the slave and the old drive as the master.

Just curious, but several folks have made this exact same suggestion to you, and we know what we're talking about. Is there some reason you don't want to do this?
ski wrote on 3/27/2006, 2:52 PM
Sorry I got a liitle confused. I have my old harddrive set up as master, and my new hard drive set up as slave. The problem is that when I have it setup this way all of the video on the slave hard drive is choppy.
Chienworks wrote on 3/27/2006, 2:53 PM
Do you have both hard drives connected to the same cable?
ski wrote on 3/27/2006, 2:57 PM
Yes, I just purchased a new cable this is the third cable I have tried.
ski wrote on 3/27/2006, 3:04 PM
Does anybody have a solution for this odd problem?
rmack350 wrote on 3/27/2006, 4:44 PM
Let's step through it.

1- Both drives are on the same 80 conductor cable.

2- What are their jumper settings?
3- What positions do they occupy on the cable?

Rob
ski wrote on 3/27/2006, 4:59 PM
1- Yes both drives are on the same 80 conductor cable
2- Old hard drive is set as master New hard drive set as slave
3- Master is at the end of cable
Slave is pluggen in the middle of the cable
4- Optical drives are totaly seperate
Chienworks wrote on 3/27/2006, 5:07 PM
Try setting both drives for CS (Cable Select). I've had trouble with the Master/Slave jumper pin settings with the new 80 pin cables.
ski wrote on 3/27/2006, 5:34 PM
Just set both drives to CS I am still having the exact same problem.
Any other suggestions? I will try anything.