Dropped Frames with new HD

[abudguy]

I recently purchased a new Maxtor 120 GB hard drive. I also have two older WD drives (a 5 and 10 GB). I have a MSI motherboard with a Athlon XP 2100 with 256MB DDR2700 memory.

I've had this system for a couple of months (except for the new drive) and everything has been fine capturing from DV camcorder to my older hard drives using Premiere 6.

When I installed the new one and tried to capture to it, I keep getting a lot of dropped frames compared to zero when I capture to the other two drives. The new drive is the slave on the primary IDE controller using Win2k with SP3 installed.

I have checked my BIOS and several other settings, but I can't figure out what to try next. I was wondering if anyone else had similar problems and how they corrected them.


I apologize if I posted this to the wrong forum, but I thought that since it involved my capturing video.

Oh, and playback from the drive is also very chopping.

Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[gll99]

A number of possibilities you may want to look at:

Your new drive is likely an ATA100/133 and your old drives ata33/66

If you mix them on the same ide controller you will slow down your new drive to the speed of the slowest drive on the same ide channel.

In addition you may be using an older ata33/66 ide cable (black ends with 40 coarse lines). What you need is an IDE cable that supports ATA100/133 (usually Blue ends and 80 fine lines which are also backwards compatible for older drives).

Also make sure that UltraDMA or DMA (depends on the OS) is turned on in XP its (Control Panel,System,hardware,Device Manager,IDE controllers,primary ide and right click for properties).

If you need to put more than 4 devices on your system then get a PCI ata100/133 controller card and put the 2 slower drives on that device.

If you have 2 slow drives and 1 fast drive plus 1 CD or DVD rom for a total of 4 devices then leave the 5 and 10 gig drives on the primary controller if you want and put the new drive (120 gig) as master on the secondary with the cd as slave. The CD won't slow down the new HD. Sometimes some systems require large drives be on the primary controller so you will have to watch for that possibility.

[skateni]

Try to put the 120 Gb HD as master on the secondary channel or better, get a PCI IDE controller and hang it off there ...

[abudguy]

Thanks for your help. I moved the 120GB to the secondary IDE with the CDRW and everything works like a charm.

Thank you very much.

abudguy