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Re: How many dropped frames are acceptable?
Posted by goemon@blort.invalid on July 18th, 2003


Doc <docsavage20@yahoo.com> wrote:
: What rate of dropped frames is typically considered acceptable?

zero

: Also, why do frames get dropped? Why will it capture 1000 frames fine
: and then drop 1?

drive acoustic management. disable it. most drives will let you do this,
though not all vendors give you the tool to do so (wdc? seagate? hello?).
ibm has a good tool for this that will work on almost any vendors drive.

i used to get 1 frame drop per 15000, now i get 0 frame drops, period.

-Dan
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