Posted by mmaker on 05/07/06 14:22

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
> Hi - I think, despite the 1Ghz machine, your problem is really likely
> to be windows 98. It's simply not designed to offer anywhere near
> real-time operating system performance (win2k is better and XP better
> still in this regard).

I very much doubt the OS itself is the problem. I've edited
feature-length DV movies on Win98 with few problems.

> The other check I'd make again in device manager - make sure your disk
> drives and controller are set to use UDMA and not PIO transfers, on
> everything but the CDROM.

That is far more likely: it does sound suspiciously like the drive
isn't running with DMA enabled.

Mark

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