#195148 PVR IBM MATROX
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Mike
You may not have noticed one of my messages a week or two ago, but it said that
3 different DPS offices have tested the IBM Ultrastar 4.51 Gig drive part #
94G3196 and found it to be unsuitable for use with the PVR at 5 Meg/sec or
higher. Apparently, IBM rates this drive as having a sustained transfer rate
of between 5.5 & 7.4 Meg/sec from the center of the drive to its outside edges.
DPS says it does not meet that in their tests & it is not on their approved
drive list.
If you find out whether there is a problem with the Matrox Millennium card
working with the PVR under Windows NT, please let me know what it is & the
solution if any. Yesterday, Dave White from Matrox claimed he had heard
nothing about a problem between these cards & I still haven't received an
answer back from DPS Kentucky.
Regards Doug Hembruff 102711,1127 Impact Televideo Productions London, Ontario,
Canada
Doug,
Apparently some of the A/V rated drives have an occasional "spike" in
their performance during sustained play, or over particular areas of the drive.
This unevenness, even though probably still useful for other AV applications,
seem to make them unsuited for PVR use. It is even possible that the
performance characteristics are somewhat operating system dependent, and since
the PVR formats its own drive…
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates
<<A/V PVR drive spikes>>
Is the 4.3 GB Micropolis one of these? The drive is sitting at my feet and the
Perception/TBC is due on Monday….
Doug…
Dontcha' find it amazin that DPS and Matrox are both Canadian companies
involved in high-end PC graphics and that they don't have more dialogue?
My builder questioned me about which rev of the IBM drive was tested as
possibly there's some newer drives that have changed. I couldn't answer that
since DPS told me that the UltraSTAR didn't meet their requirements.
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