I Got The Slows

[Jimbo]

And I don't know why.

Is this a hardware, software, or OS question?

Here is the deal:
My rig SHOULD be pretty darn fast, but it is not.
I have 3 X15 Hard drives (one fist generation, one second generation, and one third generation)
They are on an Adaptec 29160 Controller card and properly terminated.

I am running XP Pro with Office XP.

The rest of the system is an Intel 850 Board with on-board sound, a 2.0 GHZ P-4 Processor, 512 MB of RD-RAM and two IDE Devices (a burner and a DVD each on their own channels).

I have had machines that were have the clock speed that have not felt this sluggish.

Any clues?

 

[Wolfsraider]

probably since you are running those drives on a single channel scsi card so they will only work as fast as the slowest drive
are you running sp1? sometimes that can cause sluggish systems,as well you may need to update drivers like the intel accelerator driver.

 

[Jimbo]

The slowest drive is still 160! :Q

I have all of the latest drivers and have even reinstalled the OS twice. I also have the latest BIOS for the Motherboard.

 

[mechBgon]

The i850E chipset has a little bug that limits useable PCI bandwidth to about 90Mb/second (says Intel), and since your SCSI card is on the PCI bus... yep. But the bigger gremlin is that XP is known for not liking SCSI. If you have a Win2000 Pro license you could use here, try it. If you don't, go into Windows Disk Manglement and right-click your drives, and tell it to convert them to Dynamic Disk. You've got XP Service Pack 1 installed, right?

 

[Jimbo]

Yes, XP SP1 is on.