I'm a tad confused. I'm seeing many RAID-0 benches that are far better than mine in Sandra... I read the forums and didn't find anything that specifically fixed my trouble so I created this post. I know about Via Drivers and the 686b/SBLive issue but have applied the fixes. I've also installed the MS IDE ATA/100 fix. I've set the RAID at UDMA/5, have ATA/100 cables, and ATA spec drives. CDROMs are set at Multiword DMA Mode 0 , and the other UDMA/33 Mode2.

The drives are (RAID-0) 2xWD200BB ATA/100 7200...., 1xWD300BB ATA/100 7200. The single drive is partitioned into 2 drives and the RAID is intact as one partition. I'm mostly concerned about the RAID.

Sysinfo:

Dual boot Win2000/98se (W2K on RAID/ 98se on the 30G ATA/100)
1.2G 266fsb Tbird
Abit K7Ta-RAID (Highpoint)
256mb PC133 CL2
*SBLive X-Gamer (installed PCI Latency patch as well as latest beta bios from Viahardware).
400w PSU

The benches are the same for 98 and 2000. I know about the W2K IDE issues but I still see others with much better performance. I've defraged with Diskkeeper and the cluster size on the RAID is 32 and 16 on the 98se.

I've done all I can think of including combing the bios settings and using Western Digital IDE settings tools. Also individual IDE drivers from VIA.

Here are some pics. The first is the PCPitstop performance chart. The second is the Sandra bench. The Sandra shot was at the very best score and now I hover around 29,000 which is even below Sandra comparisons. I see folks with well over 50,000.






Thanks for any tips or ideas.