Posted by frank-in-toronto on 11/17/05 01:36

On 16 Nov 2005 14:08:09 -0800, marks542004@yahoo.com wrote:

>There are a couple of drive test utilities available if you do a Google
>search " freeware disk test"
>
>You can check in bios if your drive is setup for DMA.
>
>Also check defrag has been run.
>
>You may be running into a conflict between the video capture and
>Windows memory pagefile.
i would look elsewhere than your hard drive transfer rate. i have
captured digital video via firewire on a pentium 266MHz
with a regular IDE 7200 rpm drive. no dropped frames.
....thehick

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