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daven

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bufferring problem
« on: March 05, 2003, 07:56:43 pm »

This is not a media center specific issue, but I thought i might find some advice here-

I just bought a new hard drive (western digital 160mb / 7200/ 8 mb buffer) and since I installed it with the new ATA controller, I have been having significant problems with mp3's breaking up and skipping (sounding almost like a broken cd player).  Should I be worried about the quality of this hard drive and/or controller?  or is this to be expected with a large capacity drive?

thanks for any input

-dave
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KingSparta

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Re: bufferring problem
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2003, 01:31:35 am »

>> Should I be worried
maybe, but it might be ok just somthing else.

it maybe hard for somone to help you LD without seeing what you have going there.
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zevele10

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Re: bufferring problem
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2003, 04:27:31 am »

are you on DMA ?
Post your system infos and the ATA card  , must be a ATA 133.
Are you sure your drive is formated as a large drive
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Re: bufferring problem
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2003, 06:13:13 am »

There is a flag you set to tell windows 98 (if u use it) to use DMA for disk transfers. This stopped the same problem on my machine. there is a conflict with the sound cards and the disk if u dont use dma.

goto control panel/system/disk and check the fllag.

Ross
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daven

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Re: bufferring problem
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2003, 06:32:56 am »

How do I change DMA in winXP?

I have a dell 2.4 ghz / 512 RAM
The device manager lists the new controller as a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE Controller.  

The drive seems to be formatted to the full capacity.  but the device manager lists both drives as been formatted as a "Master Boot Record".  is this a problem?
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