<< Whoa. Wait a minute! I just caught something. You're saying the drives are on the Primary and Secondary >>
Yes, the primary and secondary Raid connections, the orange ones. That is what they are refered to as in the BIOS, Primary and Secondary.
<< Did you purchase the Pro (or whatever it's called) version of HDtach? Because the freeware version doesnt' run with NT/W2K >>
Um, yeah....
<< 1. Did you start out with two new, empty HD's or at least format them with Maxtor's Maxblast utility? >>
Drives where brand new, not sure if I formated with maxblast or windows format though
<< 2. Are they both jumpered to "master"? >>
That is a darn good question, I would think so, but i will have to check to make sure I didn't make a stupid mistake while installing them
<< 3. Are they running NTFS as opposed to FAT32? >>
Nope, FAT32. Is NTFS that much better, cause I am running a dual boot, and I would like to be able to access all partitions from both OS's
That gives me an idea, i am gonna test performance in ME.
<< Do you have SANDRA? Run the HD benchmark and I'll compare with you >>
Yes, i ran that before HDtach, but I heard HDtach was better. I don't remember my exact score, abut it was around 11,000
<< One thing is for certain - HPT370 is underperforming and hogs CPU >>
Really, thats wierd I was looking at getting the Iwill raid controller for when i change motherboard. Anand seemed to recommend it in his review, and it is based on the HPT370 as well.
Alright that looks like all the questions, I am gonna check to see that the drives are set as Master and then run sandra and HDtach under Win mE then I will report back. Any ideas what I can do to fix this problem? Also just a little extra question, when I enter the HTP370 BIOS, these drives are running in UDMA mode 5, is that what they should be at?