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Hi Chris,
I changed the Promise drive over to the Via Sata connection and my slow boot
has dis-appeared. I was surprised that I did not have to re-install XP on
that drive after I changed connections. I did have to edit the Boot.ini to
have it show the correct Operating System locations.
Both Installs work great and I will Raid0 when I have more time.
Thanks
Ron
PS - Are you in Great Britain ?
"Chris" <anon@school.com> wrote in message
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> Way to go!!! Let me know how you get on....
> Chris C
> "RonK" <I'mnuts@home.com> wrote in message
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>> OK - Thanks Chris, I'll put them both on the Via and I might as well
>> Raid0 them as well.
>> I did benchmark them and the Promise was about 10% slower than the Via.
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>> "Chris Catt" <cuke(nospam)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:41a2fc8c$0$4003$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
>>> Hi, bty, I'm getting over 111,000KB/sec from my raid setup on the
>>> via....
>>> Chris C
>>> "Chris Catt" <cuke(nospam)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:41a2f8ff$0$27648$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
>>>> Hi again, the Via chip has the reputation for being the quicker of the
>>>> two according to what I've read in other forums. I think this is the
>>>> one
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=91
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Chris C
>>>> "RonK" <I'mnuts@home.com> wrote in message
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>>>>> Hi Chris.
>>>>> I could connect both to the Via but I wanted to do some benchmarks to
>>>>> see if there were any performance differences between the 2.
>>>>>
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>>>>> "Chris Catt" <cuke(nospam)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:41a1f436$0$48222$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
>>>>>> Hi, what's wrong with connecting both of the drives to the Via Sata?
>>>>>> I'm sure you can run them both without having to create an raid
>>>>>> array, at least you can on my A8V. Then you'd be able to disable the
>>>>>> promise thus speeding up your bootup times....
>>>>>> Chris C
>>>>>> "m.marien" <mm AT RiverCityCanada DOT com> wrote in message
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>>>>>>> "RonK" <I'mnuts@home.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:WEaod.13324$Le1.197791@news20.bellglobal.com...
>>>>>>>>I have the A8V Deluxe with a 160 gig Sata drive on the Via
>>>>>>>>controller and another 160 gig Sata on the Promise controller.
>>>>>>>> When I boot the system, the Via controller shows the hard drive
>>>>>>>> immediately but when it's the Promise controllers turn it takes
>>>>>>>> approx 30 to 40 seconds to show the hard drive connected to it.
>>>>>>>> Occasionally it shows within 2 or 3 seconds.
>>>>>>>> I have flashed the bios to the newest and also tried the Beta Bios
>>>>>>>> and the same thing occurs. The system is very fast and stable. I
>>>>>>>> have XP installed twice for dual boot.
>>>>>>>> One on the Via and the other on the Promise.
>>>>>>>> Any suggestions besides connecting both drives to the Via ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>> Ron
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Running
>>>>>>>> A8V Deluxe
>>>>>>>> Athlon 3500+
>>>>>>>> 1 gig pc 3200 in Dual Channel.
>>>>>>>> XP SP2.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's a Promise thing. 30 - 40 seconds does seem excessive. I have a
>>>>>>> SATA on the Promise controller K8V Deluxe), plus I have some Promise
>>>>>>> TX2 cards in other systems. If there is a problem, the detection
>>>>>>> takes plenty of time. However, if the drives are fine, it detects
>>>>>>> them within 10 seconds.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Booting is a different story. The Promise drives take forever to
>>>>>>> boot. I added a PATA and boot from there - much much faster.
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