IDE drive access LED = Thumb Twiddling

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Rolf Startin - 01 Mar 2004 14:15 GMT

Hello

When I'm running Soundforge 5, I use lengthy copy/paste
routines for manipulation of audio data. All files
(usually ~ 40Meg each) are on a SCSI drive for speed.

Can anyone please advise me why the IDE drive
lamp comes on for ~6 seconds and stops my copy/paste
progress bar mid-operation until the IDE drive has
finished doing (apparently) nothing and returns priority
to my application???

This is extremely annoying as it didn't happen before I
upgraded my MoBo.

I have a 700M Celeron and 500M RAM, so I assume virtual
RAM isn't being accessed.

Suggestions would be grately appreciated.

Thank You

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TechDavid - 17 Mar 2004 04:39 GMT

You were right when you mentioned your vertual ram or swap
file - what is happening is the operating system is moving
ALL non-current user data & programs out of RAM to the
swap file, it may also be re-sizing the swap file to take
it the extra data. This is to make room for your current
operation.

Try the operation with no other applications open, see if
there is an improvement.

Remember Windows 98 is Windows 98 (built from patches in
win95 till its release late in 1998) - the things we take
for granted now in later operating systems just are not in
Windows 98.

Other strange disk activity can be explained in Knowledge
base article 146630 "Hard disk activity when computer is
idle"

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