sachin tendulkar
12-04-2002, 12:44 PM
Ok guys, I've never spent 3 days trying to get something to work!
This time I did!, I use Pinnacle Studio DV 7 to bring video from my Digital Camcorder to my hard disk. My Master Disk, a WD 20Gb 7200 RPM ATA100 drive works perfectly in Studio. But I cannont use a 20GB disk for editing video, They eat up like 15Gb/hour of digital Video. SO I go to Circuit City, but a WD 120 GB 7200RPM ATA100 drive for 89.99 (Yeah Black Friday deal!!), I installed on my computer as a slave on the same IDE cable as the mater drive. Everything seemed to work perfectly, XP recognised it and installed it. I then formatted it in NTFS. Then I open Pinacl Studio and go the damn thins says my new 120 GB drive isnt fast enough to transfer video from my camcorder!!
I tried everthing, changing the IDE cable, changing the position of the drive in accord with the cable (middle and end), tried calling Western Digital, they say there's nothing wrong with 'their' drive and ask me to call Pinnacle!!: I call Pinnacle (not an 1-800 number), they put me on hold for 40 mins, still no picks up!!! I hanged up, and literally threw the phone away!!!:
Ok, the only other possible thing is that, xp has not enabled DMA on my new 120 gb hard disk (slave), I know that its default for xp to enable DMA in any new disk, but 'maybe' xp messed up and didnt enable DMA on my new drive!!!:
Anyone and I mean anyone know how to get this damn thing to work? Thats: Anyone know how to check if DMA is on or off on my new disk?
OR: any other way to get it to work?!!!!!!:
Ok im settling down Sighhhhhhh
Spigidyak's reply:
To check DMA, go to the device manager then check IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers from there you can check to see each IDE channel and the DMA properties. However your problem could be that the drive is on slave while the program is installed on the master. This puts a big lag on the channel. I suggest moving the 120GB drive to master on the other channel (easy lazy fix) or move over to the 120GB drive as your boot drive. That should be the fix to your speed problems.
sachin tendulkar's reply:
Ok, Spigidyak, I think DMA is the problem! Cos, I did what u said to check DMA setting and Device 0 (20Gb) has current transfer mode as Ultra DMA, but Device 1 (120Gb) has PIO as its current transfer mode. The transfer mode for both devices is set as 'DMA if available'.
What do I have to do get DMA working on the second drive
Thanks
This time I did!, I use Pinnacle Studio DV 7 to bring video from my Digital Camcorder to my hard disk. My Master Disk, a WD 20Gb 7200 RPM ATA100 drive works perfectly in Studio. But I cannont use a 20GB disk for editing video, They eat up like 15Gb/hour of digital Video. SO I go to Circuit City, but a WD 120 GB 7200RPM ATA100 drive for 89.99 (Yeah Black Friday deal!!), I installed on my computer as a slave on the same IDE cable as the mater drive. Everything seemed to work perfectly, XP recognised it and installed it. I then formatted it in NTFS. Then I open Pinacl Studio and go the damn thins says my new 120 GB drive isnt fast enough to transfer video from my camcorder!!
I tried everthing, changing the IDE cable, changing the position of the drive in accord with the cable (middle and end), tried calling Western Digital, they say there's nothing wrong with 'their' drive and ask me to call Pinnacle!!: I call Pinnacle (not an 1-800 number), they put me on hold for 40 mins, still no picks up!!! I hanged up, and literally threw the phone away!!!:
Ok, the only other possible thing is that, xp has not enabled DMA on my new 120 gb hard disk (slave), I know that its default for xp to enable DMA in any new disk, but 'maybe' xp messed up and didnt enable DMA on my new drive!!!:
Anyone and I mean anyone know how to get this damn thing to work? Thats: Anyone know how to check if DMA is on or off on my new disk?
OR: any other way to get it to work?!!!!!!:
Ok im settling down Sighhhhhhh
Spigidyak's reply:
To check DMA, go to the device manager then check IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers from there you can check to see each IDE channel and the DMA properties. However your problem could be that the drive is on slave while the program is installed on the master. This puts a big lag on the channel. I suggest moving the 120GB drive to master on the other channel (easy lazy fix) or move over to the 120GB drive as your boot drive. That should be the fix to your speed problems.
sachin tendulkar's reply:
Ok, Spigidyak, I think DMA is the problem! Cos, I did what u said to check DMA setting and Device 0 (20Gb) has current transfer mode as Ultra DMA, but Device 1 (120Gb) has PIO as its current transfer mode. The transfer mode for both devices is set as 'DMA if available'.
What do I have to do get DMA working on the second drive
Thanks