I've had this frustrating problem for a while and I though I would check if anyone had any ideas...
Here's my machine.
pIII 733 - 256MB ram
Gigabyte mobo w/ via chipset
Promise ATA100 controller
drive 1 - 5400 drive with o/s and all other software
drive 2 - 7200 drive with nothing on it
Both drives are connected to ATA100 controller as masters.
So here is the problem....if I record (using SOnar, Sound ForgeXP, or Acid) to the 5400 drive then I have no problems (except that I have very little disk space)
If I record to the 7200 drive then the resulting wave file will have this pop/crackle sound at regular intervals. 1 or 2 per second throughout the duration of the wave file.
I have tried almost everything I can think of to remedy this - new soundcard drives, new mobo drivers, moving the drives to different IDE slots, optimising my window settings, optimising software settings etc, etc.
So in conclusion, my slow drive has no problems in any software, my fast drive can record a single clean wave. I have concluded that either my fast hard drive (brand new btw) is defective or my motherboard sucks and can't provide data to fast drive fast enough.
Does anyone have any thoughts? Any help would be appreciated.
Chris
Here's my machine.
pIII 733 - 256MB ram
Gigabyte mobo w/ via chipset
Promise ATA100 controller
drive 1 - 5400 drive with o/s and all other software
drive 2 - 7200 drive with nothing on it
Both drives are connected to ATA100 controller as masters.
So here is the problem....if I record (using SOnar, Sound ForgeXP, or Acid) to the 5400 drive then I have no problems (except that I have very little disk space)
If I record to the 7200 drive then the resulting wave file will have this pop/crackle sound at regular intervals. 1 or 2 per second throughout the duration of the wave file.
I have tried almost everything I can think of to remedy this - new soundcard drives, new mobo drivers, moving the drives to different IDE slots, optimising my window settings, optimising software settings etc, etc.
So in conclusion, my slow drive has no problems in any software, my fast drive can record a single clean wave. I have concluded that either my fast hard drive (brand new btw) is defective or my motherboard sucks and can't provide data to fast drive fast enough.
Does anyone have any thoughts? Any help would be appreciated.
Chris