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"good" SATA2 drivers for PCIe JMB360 controller?
Hello,
I have a board with an onboard SATA2 connector. I put a SATA2 disk on it, and when I installed vista (with the controller in SATA mode in the bios (asrock 939Dual-SATA2 board)), Vista detected the controller and loaded a default driver, and the install took about 3 hours. The windows experience disk performance rating was 2.2. I changed the controller mode to IDE in the bios (which required a reinstall of Vista), but it was way way faster. Now I have a disk performance rating of 5, but the disk is running in IDE UDMA-6 mode (equiv to SATA150). I suppose the question is, does anyone know if a suitable SATA2 controller driver exists for Vista that doesnt suck the way the controller driver that is bundled with Vista does? I would like to be able to harness the full speed of the SATA2 disk that is in my system. Thanks, - NuTs |
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"good" SATA2 drivers for PCIe JMB360 controller?
Nut Cracker wrote:
Hello, I have a board with an onboard SATA2 connector. I put a SATA2 disk on it, and when I installed vista (with the controller in SATA mode in the bios (asrock 939Dual-SATA2 board)), Vista detected the controller and loaded a default driver, and the install took about 3 hours. The windows experience disk performance rating was 2.2. I changed the controller mode to IDE in the bios (which required a reinstall of Vista), but it was way way faster. Now I have a disk performance rating of 5, but the disk is running in IDE UDMA-6 mode (equiv to SATA150). I suppose the question is, does anyone know if a suitable SATA2 controller driver exists for Vista that doesnt suck the way the controller driver that is bundled with Vista does? I would like to be able to harness the full speed of the SATA2 disk that is in my system. Thanks, - NuTs JMicron has a driver for the JMB36x that's dated 2/2007 and is supposed to be for Vista -- http://www.jmicron.com/Driver.htm If the drive is already running in UDMA 6, though, is it likely that you'll see any improvement in disk performance? Please post your before and after results. |
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"good" SATA2 drivers for PCIe JMB360 controller?
"Ron Miller" wrote in message
... Nut Cracker wrote: Hello, I have a board with an onboard SATA2 connector. I put a SATA2 disk on it, and when I installed vista (with the controller in SATA mode in the bios (asrock 939Dual-SATA2 board)), Vista detected the controller and loaded a default driver, and the install took about 3 hours. The windows experience disk performance rating was 2.2. I changed the controller mode to IDE in the bios (which required a reinstall of Vista), but it was way way faster. Now I have a disk performance rating of 5, but the disk is running in IDE UDMA-6 mode (equiv to SATA150). I suppose the question is, does anyone know if a suitable SATA2 controller driver exists for Vista that doesnt suck the way the controller driver that is bundled with Vista does? I would like to be able to harness the full speed of the SATA2 disk that is in my system. Thanks, - NuTs JMicron has a driver for the JMB36x that's dated 2/2007 and is supposed to be for Vista -- http://www.jmicron.com/Driver.htm If the drive is already running in UDMA 6, though, is it likely that you'll see any improvement in disk performance? Please post your before and after results. It should just be an update to the disk controller driver, reboot, and change the setting in the bios, and then let the machine come up .... I put a lot of time into setting up vista already and dont want to lose that investment of time. so ... I might, I might not. if I DO, I will do some performance before and after, just to see if there is a significant difference. - NuTs |
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"good" SATA2 drivers for PCIe JMB360 controller?
One interesting thing in terms of performance -- hard drives (aside
from WD Raptor drives and virtually any SCSI drive) for desktops run at 7200 RPM. The newer SATA and IDE drives might have a 16M onboard cache, but in terms of sustained performance data transfer, you are not likely to see much better performance than an ATA 100 (let alone 133 or Sata 150) than you already are getting. About the only place where Sata 300 might show up in real performance gains if you are running a RAID 5 SATA array with 4 or more drives in the array -- and that's with an add in controller which includes onboard cache of its own. -- Barry Schnur |
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"good" SATA2 drivers for PCIe JMB360 controller?
"BSchnur" wrote in message
om... One interesting thing in terms of performance -- hard drives (aside from WD Raptor drives and virtually any SCSI drive) for desktops run at 7200 RPM. The newer SATA and IDE drives might have a 16M onboard cache, but in terms of sustained performance data transfer, you are not likely to see much better performance than an ATA 100 (let alone 133 or Sata 150) than you already are getting. About the only place where Sata 300 might show up in real performance gains if you are running a RAID 5 SATA array with 4 or more drives in the array -- and that's with an add in controller which includes onboard cache of its own. -- Barry Schnur for sustained I/O, I agree. And yes, my drive has a 16MB cache, and I know that the SATA 300 (2.0) is really what the max buffer I/O is rated at, not the sustained I/O of the drive. But Im a geek, and I want to know if there is any real difference, and if there IS a difference i want to know 'why'. I also am curious as to why SATA mode for my controller was soooo much slower than IDE when I installed vista the first time. Using HDTach, my disk is peaking at about 130M/s (burst), and I know it should be way higher. the sustained I/O isnt terrible, and averages about 65M/s. I know lots and lots about Raid, as I work with it every single day. Mostly SCSI U320 arrays on HP and Dell servers, with an odd IBM box tossed in for variety. A fair amount of EMC DMX and Clariion stuff over Fibre Channel as well. I will probably do a local C: and system state backup before i start changing the controller drivers and switching the controller mode in the bios. At least that way, it should be a quick recovery back to where I was before I made any changes. Thanks for the input ... - NuTs |
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"good" SATA2 drivers for PCIe JMB360 controller?
Hello!
"Nut Cracker" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a board with an onboard SATA2 connector. I put a SATA2 disk on it, and when I installed vista (with the controller in SATA mode in the bios (asrock 939Dual-SATA2 board)), Vista detected the controller and loaded a default driver, and the install took about 3 hours. The windows experience disk performance rating was 2.2. I changed the controller mode to IDE in the bios (which required a reinstall of Vista), but it was way way faster. Now I have a disk performance rating of 5, but the disk is running in IDE UDMA-6 mode (equiv to SATA150). I suppose the question is, does anyone know if a suitable SATA2 controller driver exists for Vista that doesnt suck the way the controller driver that is bundled with Vista does? I would like to be able to harness the full speed of the SATA2 disk that is in my system. Here is a KB with an interesting description (6.0.6000.20518) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/KB931369 Quote:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932079 It seems that they are available from: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...IGR-67393.html Maybe it will help ... Regards, Roman |
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"good" SATA2 drivers for PCIe JMB360 controller?
I would like to be able to harness the full speed of the SATA2 disk that
is in my system. Here is a KB with an interesting description (6.0.6000.20518) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/KB931369 Quote:
And here are new IDE/ATAPI/AHCI drivers (build 6.0.6000.20523) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932079 It seems that they are available from: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...IGR-67393.html Maybe it will help ... Regards, Roman Excellent post Roman, thank you very much ! - NuTs |
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"good" SATA2 drivers for PCIe JMB360 controller?
OK -- fair enough, this newsgroup does get folks who are shall we say
less than expert on RAID array stuff -- clearly you have the hands on for this. -- Barry Schnur |
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"good" SATA2 drivers for PCIe JMB360 controller?
"BSchnur" wrote in message om... OK -- fair enough, this newsgroup does get folks who are shall we say less than expert on RAID array stuff -- clearly you have the hands on for this. -- Barry Schnur Thanks for that, Barry. I didnt always know about RAID, though, and realize that everyone needs to start someplace. |
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"good" SATA2 drivers for PCIe JMB360 controller?
Thanks for that, Barry. I didnt always know about RAID, though, and realize
that everyone needs to start someplace. Understood... -- Barry Schnur Novell Support Connection Volunteer Sysop |