IDE Performance and Q's on KR7aRaid, heeelp me

[nicspits]

I have recently upgraded to a KR7a Raid and a 7200rpm HD. I got the HD first and on my old KG7 it benchmarked under sisoft at 21mb/s average. On my KR7a at the moment it is running 15mb/s. I am using it as a single (wd300bb) with the jumper set in neutral. It is on IDE1 and in mode5(ata100). This is severely bottlenecking my system and I hope someone can help me out with how to fix this.

Another thing that I was having trouble with is my two CD drives. The Ricoh drive is running in at ata33 and the DVD at ata66. they are not sharing a cable, and are both set to master. I looked in the bios and couldn't find anything to change this. Is this a drive setting perhaps? If anyone could offer advice on either of these two perdickerments, I would greatly appreciate it.

Sincerely,
Nic Spitulski

 

[Gilgamesh]

The only thing that could happen is that you are using IDE33 cables other than that would be a hardware problem Try to get some new cables ata 100. Sorry i can't help you more. By the way try to set those drives in CS (cable select)

 

[nicspits]

Well I went to Paul's hardware guide and checked out a couple of things. I changed an L2 setting, and a couple other random things. (I looked at every tip and went through the bios on each one.) This has bumped me up to 18mb/s which is 3/4(sisoft says ata66)of what Sisoft says it is supposed to be. This might be satisfactory to me considering that this drive had to be repaired. On the other hand, I am going to get another one and stripe them in raid0. In this case I would only be 4mb/s slower than ata100 striped so I guess it will work out. Gotta have the bandwidth(oh yeah, if the drive does fail, I can send it back to newegg and say that I want a brand new one