Low Performance problems with Raid 0 on HP370

[MarcoP]

Hi,


I'm upgraded my system (Abit KT7a, Duron 1,2GHz, WinXP, 768MB RAM, 60GB+10GB IBM HDD) with a hp370 raid controller and 2 ibm 80gb hdds.
I created a raid 0 (striping) with 64 kb cluster size. While installing XP I created three 60GB partitions! on the first one - i installed winXP. After the installation was ready I ran Sisoft Sandra 2002 Prof. and tested my performance on drive C (first raid 0 partition). The horrible result: ~16000KB
AFter I searched through the forum I saw people reporting the double data rate!
I also read in another forum, that the partitions should not be the reason for that performance issue.

Thank you

 

[MarcoP]

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[BoomAM]

Try updating the drivers for it.
And if i recall correctly, the latest BIOS for the KT7A, also has the latest BIOS for the RAID controller.
See what that does. I dont know that much about RAID, apart from the basics, but with a bit of luck, if the above doesnt help, someone who does know about RAID will probably answer back with a fix for you.

 

[MarcoP]

I'm using an abit KT7a rev. 1.3 w/o onboard raid but I'm using a standard pci raid card

 

[BoomAM]

oh. Well try updating the BIOS for that as well, and the drivers. See if theres any settings in the BIOS screan that youve missed as well.

 

[MarcoP]

Hi,


my raid card is not flashable - no eeprom or eprom!!!
I'm using bios version 1.03b and now I'm using the new HP winxp driver 2.34!! HighPoint does not recommend using different driver/bios versions but now I'm reaching about 32000kb/s! That's much better - so keep your hands off that winxp inbuilt hp driver!!!

But it nevertheless sounds quite slow to me - at sisoft a hardly compareable other raid 0 with UDMA66 28GB pattern reaches the same but I'm using the newest ibm 180 drive series ...

 

[BoomAM]

So its fixed? I thought it might be the driver. Most of the drivers in XP are generic and dont include specific hardware optimisations.