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  • New HD too slow for Video Capture?

    Greetings.

    I recently picked up the Maxtro DiamondMax 5120 20 GB 7200RPM hard drive. Running HDTach, I get results much lower than the DiamondMax 2500+ that serves as my main drive. It seems that DMA mode is active for the 20 Gig drive.

    Now, I *believe* the problem is due to my IDE cable. On my 2500+ drive, I have an Ultracable on the 1st IDE connector. I'm ordering another Ultracable for the 20 Gig drive (on the 2nd IDE channel) but I wanted to be sure that I'm not overlooking another solution. Any ideas?

    DrFaust

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    Put the second hard drive on the primary IDE chain. Eventhough you will have 2 devices on the chain, there will not be a noticable slowdown in data transfer rate and you'll be able to run it on a known good UDMA cable.

    Jammrock
    “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
    –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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