hd prob on hpt controller

ChrysalisChrysalis
edited September 2003 in Hardware
Hi I have 3 hds in this machine

13 gig 5400 ata33
45 gig 5400 dma66

Both sharing primary ide controller on mb.

60 gig 7200 dma133

On its own on ide3 ata133 raid controller.

At the moment the 2 slower hds are far outperforming my 60 gig drive, when the 60 gig is under heavy load the system will slow down and if it is really heavy load copying 1 gig file or something then the pc will almost stop until it finishes.

Someone suggested to me it is running in pio mode but because it is on the highoint controller I cannot check this in device manager, is there another way to check if it is running in pio mode?

Another thing I think may be wrong is that the highpoint controller is sharing its irq with something else, if it was would this happen because of it?

Specs below, thanks in advance for any help

abit kx7-333r
amd xp 2200+
highpoint controller 372 on board
using latest bios 2.34 and 2.34 drivers
latest via 4 in 1
geforce 2 pro using 45.24 dets
win2k pro sp4

other devices in pc
sblive value
smc1211 lan card
hauppauge tv card

Comments

  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    If my memory serves me, I beleive you don't want to use 3 and 4 if using the onboard HPT. You will also get more out of that ATA66 HD if you put it on the other IDE channel and let the other one share the channel with the CD-ROM.
  • Cool-CanuckCool-Canuck
    edited August 2003
    Hummm, use to be PCI slot 5 and HPT shared the same IRQ. Been wrong before though.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited August 2003
    Yes stay away frinskit 4, Gittoa ask, Dies it have teh cirrect cabke insatalled?

    Trc
  • ChrysalisChrysalis
    edited August 2003
    has the 80 ide cable installed and jumper is on cable select, its slower than ata33 its like my very old 4 gig hd in my 400mhz box.

    Here is a update anyway, I moved tv card to last slot and the bios irq's have the hpt controller on its own irq now but tv is now sharing with lan card and usb controller, which I see as a less bad thing, but in windows the hpt controller,agp card, sound card,tv card and lan card are all on irq 11 so I am considering switching windows over to APM instead of ACPI.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    Originally posted by Tex
    Yes stay away frinskit 4, Gittoa ask, Dies it have teh cirrect cabke insatalled?

    Trc

    Cool Canuck,

    I think we have a code 3 emergency. Those little critters are eating his brain again!
  • Cool-CanuckCool-Canuck
    edited August 2003
    Originally posted by mtgoat


    Cool Canuck,

    I think we have a code 3 emergency. Those little critters are eating his brain again!
    Mom keeps telling him not to talk with his mouth full. :D
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited August 2003
    Originally posted by Chrysalis
    has the 80 ide cable installed and jumper is on cable select, its slower than ata33 its like my very old 4 gig hd in my 400mhz box.

    Here is a update anyway, I moved tv card to last slot and the bios irq's have the hpt controller on its own irq now but tv is now sharing with lan card and usb controller, which I see as a less bad thing, but in windows the hpt controller,agp card, sound card,tv card and lan card are all on irq 11 so I am considering switching windows over to APM instead of ACPI.

    Your gonna share IRQ's if you have more then a couple boards. It can't be helped.

    On your MB it works like this. You get FOUR and ONLY FOUR irq's to handle the pci and agp slots plus the onboard raid and usb and acpi itself.

    AGP shares with pci 1.
    PCI 2 & 3 share
    PCI 4 & 6 share
    PCI 5 shares with the HPT
    USB if I remeber also shares with 4 & 6.

    The exercise is shuffling stuff to see which ones play better together basicaly.

    Tex
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited September 2003
    Originally posted by Chrysalis
    has the 80 ide cable installed and jumper is on cable select, its slower than ata33 its like my very old 4 gig hd in my 400mhz box.

    How much memory do you have installed?

    Also try setting the 60GB drive to Master instead of "Cable Select"

    DeFrag your HD
  • ChrysalisChrysalis
    edited September 2003
    It has been defragged

    Did I mention when defragging my hds I could use my pc normally whilst defragging every other drive but defragging the maxtor the pc slowed so much it was unuseable until the defrag was done.

    Hd is fine when moved to other controller is very fast.

    I have 512mb Ram
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