hd prob on hpt controller

[chrysalis]

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

 

[molior]

If I remeber rightly the settings should be taken from the BIOS of the HTP controler.

Don't worry about shared IRQ's got 2x RR404's (just running 8 independent drives atm) both are sharing IRQ's with 1000TX NIC's and besides a PCI bottle neck there doesn't seem to be negative effects.

Row like mortals, think like gods.