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Poor quality playback from new Hard Drive

  • 26-06-2006 11:09pm
    #1
    newbie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,477 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I recently installed a second hard drive on my machine, but the results aren't what i was expecting. The 2 hd's are a Maxtor 6Y080L0 (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133) and a ST3320620A Seagate barracuda (298 GB, IDE). My OS is on my Maxtor while I store most of my videos, music and games on the Seagate. The problem I'm having is when I play any music, video or game from my new 300gb Seagate it stutters slightly - well not slightly -alot. Copying files from one drive to another seems to take for ages. (10 or 12 mins for 700mb). When I play any music "it seems to copy the file to the Maxtor" (where my OS is) resulting in poor quality playback.
    Any help on this would be great.:confused:
    thanks in advance.

    FYI -
    CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 3000 MHz (15 x 200)
    Motherboard Chipset Intel Springdale-G i865G
    Windows Home SP2
    System Memory 1024 MB (DDR SDRAM)


Comments

  • #2
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    I had something like this before only it was on my main drive. Windows was going slow as hell.
    Turned out that in device manager -> Primary IDE channel properties -> Advanced Settings Tab - had the devices set to PIO Only. Just check these and make sure they on DMA (direct memory access)


  • #3
    newbie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,477 ✭✭✭newbie2


    Thanks for replying dude. I did that as one of my troubleshooting tasks. It seemed that they were both DMA so it wasn't that. We did however solve the problem. It seemed that in the BIOS I had to enable the "Primary Slave Drive". For some reason this was disabled. Anywho, everything works great now. Thanks again for replying.


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