Rebelranger Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 I just added additonal HDD and made 2 sets of RAID 0. They seem to work fine but... today my system started freezing when transfering files from DVD to disk. I noticed one of my Raid drives is 64k cluster size (boot) and the other is 16. I also noticed that my DVD access seems slower noisier and very sputtery... The only new thing was the addition of windows updates... I noticed when I chec my Drive (Raid) properties the drivers are Microsoft. I did use the F6 option when I installed XP Pro.. This is driving me crazy.. I must add the freesing jittery performance happens mainly when using the DVD to transfer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kobalt Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 Is DMA enabled for the optical drive? Check event viewer for error/warnings. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebelranger Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 Both DVD Drives are Ultra DMA2-Ultra33 with Let bios select transfer mode checked. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebelranger Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 One thing under Disk Drives NVIDIA Stripe uses microsoft drivers. But,Under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers the drivers are NVIDIA nForce4 dated 1/24/2006 version 5.10.2600.66. What drivers are you guys using? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 Did you install the SW IDE drivers from nFORCE 6.70 AMD Edition Chipset drivers? I don't think it's good to have one HD @64k and the other @16k, how did you do that? Both need to be the same, very strange. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebelranger Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 Yes I installed the SW IDE drivers (Version: 6.86) this last update. But before that I didn't use them. Somehow when I installed the first drive I chose 64 (mistake I meant 16) then I installed windows and latter added my second Raid at 16... Is there a way to change cluster size without loosing my data for the OS...? I'm sure I can't but just want to hear it from someone else. I dont use large files so wouldn't 16 be better or will 64 be ok. My D drive I can change its setting without worry but would hate to (But will) do a complete reinstall!! Should I not use the SW IDE drivers? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebelranger Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 Is there a way to unistall the Nvidia IDE drivers? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kobalt Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 Is there a way to unistall the Nvidia IDE drivers? Yes, rollback... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebelranger Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 OK Thank you.. So just to confirm the IDE drivers are a nono? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebelranger Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 Could not do a rollback.. I uninstalled everything (anything Nvidia) with Driver Cleaner Pro and deleted the folder as well and reinstalled without the storage driver...Seems better....Will keep testing. The question remains should I use set up both drives as 16? or can they operate ok at 64? Does my performance suffer as a result? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kobalt Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 The nvidia drivers had issues with optical drives mainly. The speed is pretty much the same as the MS ones. The Nvidia ones have more features than the generic MS ones, as you would expect. AFAIK, both drives should be the same. I never heard of a array that had different sizes. It could cause all sorts of problems one would think. I would say reformat the drives to be exact same, and go from there. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebelranger Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 Thanks.. Is there a difference in the 16 or 64 cluster? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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