I have a second hard drive that I have had to connect to the secondary slave on the IDE channel (complicated reason). Now I know that it is supposed to be slower since I have a CDRW on the master on the secondary channel but when I run a hard drive test I get good results - seriously and it says that I should be able to get a transfer rate of over 5mb per second. I have recently updated my DC30 drivers to v1.41 and tried to do a capture - dropped frames even if it is set to quarter SIF (875kb / sec) - the drive is set to DMA. Any ideas as I am stumped - please don't say to put the drive on the primary slave because i cannot (SVideo cable is stuck in the DC30 socket, cannot remove it and to remove the dead hard drive I have not move the motherboard but can't because of the SVideo plug - a pain - in fact if some one can tell me how to unplug the cable from the DC30 i would be most grateful)
Thanks in advance
Try to temp disconnect the CDR, also is the drive Ultra66, if so usually the MB controller will not support this mode and you at least need to get a software routine from the drive manufacturer to select Ultra33 mode.
5MBS is pretty poor, shows that some thing is up, most of the new drives should be closer to 10+
John