Ultra DMA cable

firubbi · Post by **firubbi** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:58 am

im still using dma cable for all 3 hd and dvdrw(all PATA). do you think if i change dma cable to Ultra Dma cable its gonna speed up my data transfar and solve clicks or pops or glitches.( i can put any project in 3 hd coz its still start clicks or glitches sometimes

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One of my friend told me not to use Ultra DMA cable with DVDRW! coz he got problem with using that. any idea?
thanks

djmicron · Post by **djmicron** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:09 am

i don't know about the difference between the 2 cables, but pops, clicks and glitches could be caused by different factors.
For example, using digital connections with more than one single clock source, or using a latency setting too low, or working with high cpu performance....
I don't know about your system configuration, could be good to let us know about it...
Micron

MD69 · Post by **MD69** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:29 am

HD: YES if you have Ultra DMA capable Disk
DVD: No

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:05 am

OMG, life can be so simple

Firubbi, the faster the data on the cable the less reliable is the transmission.
The effect of an UDMA cable is comparable to a symmetric audio connection versus an asymetric one. It's required for reliability.

Your BIOS should detect this and drive the disk slower - even worse if it doesn't, as then the controller sends data full speed, but is constantly interrupted by errors.
You should experience a vast improvement

cheers, tom