<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Joe Silver wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I never thought much about latency until today when I found this page on the wiki:<BR><A href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_Latency">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_Latency</A><BR><BR>I found my IDE controller latency was set to zero, so I reset it to 32 (20hex). I'm not at home to try playback right now, but I was wondering what others who are having this problem find for their IDE/SATA controller latency. Maybe this could fix us up?!?! I'll report back later tonight what I find out. <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>So far, with a very limited number of samples, the people who have found their disk controllers set to zero have either been unable to reset the latency value, or have not seen any positive results from doing so.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Only the machines which have drive controller latency set to 32 or 64 initially have had much luck in adjusting them.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Again, this is from a *very* limited number of samples (6 to be exact) so please report your results, positive or negative, as well as the chipset your mobo is using (perhaps on the WiKi page ??)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks.</DIV></BODY></HTML>