Problems with Abit KT7-Raid and 200GB Seagate

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Alexander Vierschrodt

Hi!

I'm using a Abit KT7-R board and just added a 200gb Seagate harddrive (now the
only harddrive).

The VIA 4in1 drivers are installed and the newest bios is on the board but the
performance of the harddrive is much too low (the reading speed drops every few
seconds to around 1MB/s). HDTune says the average transfer speed is <20MB/s. The
drive itself seems okay, I tested it in an external USB2-case and it worked
fine. I also tried to use another IDE-cable. Nothing worked.

Has the KT7-R a problem with harddrives of this size?

Regards, Alex.
 
Hi!

I'm using a Abit KT7-R board and just added a 200gb Seagate harddrive (now the
only harddrive).

The VIA 4in1 drivers are installed and the newest bios is on the board but the
performance of the harddrive is much too low (the reading speed drops every few
seconds to around 1MB/s). HDTune says the average transfer speed is <20MB/s. The
drive itself seems okay, I tested it in an external USB2-case and it worked
fine. I also tried to use another IDE-cable. Nothing worked.

Has the KT7-R a problem with harddrives of this size?

Regards, Alex.
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I may be mentioning the obvious, but you didn't mention it so I
will...

Did you install the raid chipset driver?
Does device manager (windows OS?) show any problems?

Try the Via Latency and/or RAID performance patch (if windows OS,
otherwise see some changes it makes and set as many of those as
possible in your choice of OS and/or in bios):
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=339

However, not using the above patch shouldn't be crippling
performance at a mere 1MB/s, a rough guess would be that properly
working raid on that board prior to and after the patch would be
more like 18-48MB/s VS 25-65MB/s... but those figures might be
quite off, it is just a guess, i don't remember exact figures
from my last Via/Raid m'board and at the time the HDDs were
slower than today.
 
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