Hard Drive and Dropped Frames

[tckg]

I have been trying to capture clips from a DVD. I use Canopus ADVC 100 and ScenalyzerLive (trial version). When I used my C drive as the destination drive for the captured avi file, the capture was perfect with no frame drop. When I captured on to my secondary drive (a new 60 GB drive dedicated for this project), however, I had hundreds of frames dropped in a 60 second clip. Both drives have rotational speed of 7200 rpm, defragged, and ultra DMA Mode 2 enabled.

I used the Hardisk Write-Speed Test that came with ScenalyzerLive to check my two drives. My C drive, the one that worked, had write-speed of 225 frames/sec. The write-speed of secondary drive, the one that did not work, was only 17 frames/sec, which probably was the reason for the large number of frames dropped. What have I done incorrectly and is there some setting that I should know about to bring the second drive up to ‘speed’?

Thanks in advance.

My system:
Dell P4, 2.6 Mhz, 512 MB RAM, XP Home Edition SP 1

[Sam Ontario]

............ My C drive, the one that worked, had write-speed of 225 frames/sec. The write-speed of secondary drive, the one that did not work, was only 17 frames/sec, .......................... Thanks in advance.

My system:
Dell P4, 2.6 Mhz, 512 MB RAM, XP Home Edition SP 1

Whilst I cannot help you on this, but, are you sure 225 frames/second with your capture card? What card is it? Does Cano really capture that fast?

[snowmoon]

how did you attach the second drive... if it's on the same chain as the C drive you will loose most of the DMA speed.