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Notes on using A/V drives with DigiSuite LE
Creating a stripe set
When creating a stripe set using Windows NT Disk Administrator, make
sure you choose
Partition | Create Stripe Set
. If you accidentally create a
volume set, your drives will appear to work as a stripe set, but their
performance will be degraded.
Copying files
Do not copy audio or video files between NTFS and FAT drives. Such files
may become unusable.
Access to IDE drives during capture
If your system includes both SCSI and IDE drives, do not create or access
files on your IDE drives while capturing or playing back material on your
SCSI A/V drives. Doing so may interrupt the capture or playback process
if you don’t have the correct bus-mastering EIDE settings.
Using third-party disk defragmentation programs
and disk optimizers
To ensure maximum system performance, we recommend that you use a
defragmentation utility such as Diskeeper from Executive Software
International (
http://www.execsoft.com/ ) or Norton Utilities for Windows
NT 4.0 from Symantec ( http://www.symantec.com/ )
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. The amount of
footage you capture to your A/V drives determines how often you should
use your defragmentation utility. On average, however, you should
defragment your A/V drives once a month. Remember to quit your
defragmentation program after each use, that is, do not leave it running in
the background.
However, you should never use an A/V disk optimizer utility, such as
Dr. SCSI, on the A/V drives you use with DigiSuite. These utilities often
bypass the error detection/correction mechanism that ensures the integrity
of your files, and may therefore cause serious problems with DigiSuite (for
example, your system may crash or become unstable).
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We recommend that you install Norton Utilities before the DigiSuite software, as
installing it after will replace the mfc42.dll (Winnt\System 32) file with a non-compatible
older version. If you install Norton Utilities after the DigiSuite software, you’ll have to
rename or delete the mfc42.dll file and then uninstall and reinstall your DigiSuite
software. Contact Customer Support for further assistance.