ATA100 Drive Drops from UDMA-5 to PIO while Scnearist encodes

[shindsh]

ATA100-200GB Drive Drops from UDMA-5 to PIO while Scnearist encodes.
Has anyone had this problem. Once Windows XP sees timeouts or errors it drops the speed of IDE Channel which has the hardisk has to a lower speed.

Thanks,
Shree

[shindsh]

My apologies, this should have been in the hardware forum. Anyways I returned the following computer for a SCSI Workstaion.

My old SCSI Workstation DELL 330 never had problems. And the problems with HD are when we go excessive writes towards the end of Scenarist. I guess the most extensive parts of the system used during Scenarist encoding is the hardisk. The Dell Dimension did the encoding in CCE in a good speed 1.01 comparred to my old SCSI workstation 330 at 0.66.


Computer (ordered last week) Returned to DELL:
DELL DIM 4600,PENTM 4,2.60GHZ,MMT,INT SNDNIC
512MB DDR AT 400MHZ - 2X256MB,TIED
200GB ULTRA ATA/100,7200 RPM,TIED
16X DVD-ROM DRIVE,2200,LTON,DIM

New Computer I am getting:
DELL 3.00GHZ,P4,MT,WS360,512K CACHE,800FSB
512MB,DDR400 SDRAM,ECC,2X256,WS360
36GB,HD,SCSI,U320,1INCH,10K RPM,WS360MT
36GB,HD,SCSI,U320,1INCH,10K RPM,WS360MT
U320 SCSI ADPTR W/RAID 0 AT NO XTRA CHRG
16X DVD-ROM AND 48X/24X/48X CDRW,PWS

Old WorkStation that was doing well in Scenarist, except for CCE encdoing.
DELL 1.3GHZ,P4,MT,WS330,400FSB
512MB,DDR400 RDRAM,ECC,2X256,
36GB,HD,SCSI,U160,15K RPM - Cheetah
36GB,HD,SCSI,U320,15K RPM - Cheetah
U160 SCSI ADPTR
HP200i DVD+RW

Video Card:
GeForce4 Ti4600-128MB RAM.
Thanks,
Shree