Re: PCWorks: Windows 2000 experts?

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Clint Hamilton]

Thanks Ben, I went ahead and ordered a promise ATA 100 card.  I
am assuming or hoping it will not interfere with the integrated
HPT366 controller.  (Should I have formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?  I
chose NTFS because I heard it is superior, is that the case?)
Thanks,
-Clint

God Bless Us All
http://orpheuscomputing.com
Clint Hamilton, Owner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I realized that I didn't mention in my last message that all of
that stuff
pertains to Win2000.

Ben Moore


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> You are going to find out that, at least in my experience, the
HPT366
> controller is terrible.  I have a Abit Be6-2 that I never could
get the
> Highpoint controller to work with IBM drives when I first built
the system
> and recently did get it working with newer drivers but the
perfomance is
> just terrible.   The drive gives better performance from the
regular ide
> controller built into the board than from the Highpoint.  As
far as I can
> see, Highpoint has abandoned development of drivers for this
controller
> since the HPT370 came out.
>
> The best thing you can do is to find all the drivers and bios
that have
been
> issued for your board, try different combinations and find the
one that
> gives you the best performance but I don't think it will ever
be anything
> that you will be satisfied with.
>
> You ought to go to usenet to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.soyo
and see if
> anyone has come up with a fix. I'm sure you are not the only
one having
the
> problem.
>
> Ben Moore
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Clint Hamilton"

> > Hi all.  Hoping there is someone on the list that knows
> > win2k.  I am quite proficient with win98, but I am not
> > familiar with win2k AT ALL, so please keep that in mind.  :)
> > A few days ago I installed it on a new hard drive and wanted
> > to test some things to be sure they are operating at peak
> > performance.  The hard drive is about the fastest IDE drive
> > made, an IBM 20gb 60GXP series...ATA 100, 7200rpm, 2mb
> > buffer, and the highest areal density currently on the
> > market.  (PIII 800e, 256mb CAS2 PC133)
> >
> > I ran the diagnostics and benchmarking program "SiSoft
> > Sandra" some of are familiar with it, but you don't need to
> > be to see the problem.  I ran a benchmark of the hard drive,
> > and it was a LOT lower than the HD on win98.  For reference
> > purposes, all you need to really know or see is that the
> > difference in the rating was big.  On win98, the "drive
> > index" was over 15,000.  On win2k, it was only 8300!  The
> > access time is quite good, buffered read and write times as
> > you can see are very high, at over 1200Mb/sec, but it
> > suffers tremendously with sequential read and random read
> > performance.  (These should be several times higher which
> > evidently is what is bringing the rating down).  This was
> > with "windows disk cache on" in the program's options, it
> > was even lower with 'bypass windows disk cache' checked.
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