Dropping frames

[dave9999]

Maybe somebody went trough the same hell I do. I am setting up a new computer dedicated to video capture and SVCD burning. The hardware is the following: SOYO Dragon Plus MB, 1800XP plus processor, 512MB RAM, 20GB 5400 drive for the operating system and 2x40GB 7200 drives in RAID 0 for capturing. By using VDub I am able to capture 720x480 at 29.97 frames on the small drive but the best I can do with the RAID array is 480x480 with CD quality sound. Any resolution above that will start dropping frames. I have formatted both, the single drive and the arrays for NTSF. Did anybody had any experience with this?
Please help.

[BJ_M]

are your stripped drives (raid 0) done in windows or are you using a dedicated controller and doing raid in hardware -- also are the drives on the same ide cable ..

you may have better luck with one drive as no mater what - IDE can not write to 2 drives at same time if they are on the same channel as scsi can .. i get better speed config ide drives as you have if i just set them up as JBOD ....

you should be able to be ok with ata100 on a 80 ire cable on its on channel (no other devices on that cable) .. if you need to , get a promise IDE controller ..

[dave9999]

Thank you for the reply. I am using the on-board dual channel RAID controller chip with the FASTTRAK 100-LITE RAID controller. I use 2 separate 80 conductor cables and 2 Ultra ATA/100 drives. Does it come any better than that? One of the problems is that I am not very experienced with computer hardware and find everything new as a great challange and I am sure that I'm missing something.

[BJ_M]

i would still dump the raid -- (which i assume you configured in your boot up or use the windows app) ... just try with a single drive . of the same controller is fine.

i would see GREAT siasoft sandra scores on a set up like yours but it couldnt cap worth anything ..

[dave9999]

Thank you BJ_M