BE6II SLOW ATA66 preformance??????

[A/C Man]

I have a new BE6II, and the ata66 preformance
is about as fast as a old 100MB IDE drive!
I have every thing installed right, cable,
newest Highpoint driver and newset BE6II
BIOS, nothing installed in the #5 PCI slot,
I am using a Maxtor 10.2G drive that was
very fast on my old SiS620 based board...
the drive is ATA66....everything looks
normal, just slooooow as hell?
WHAT GIVES???????? HELP!!!!!

[Tom Pico]

Very interesting. I've got an IBM 20GB DeskStar 7200 & BE6-II (QJ bios). I ran my DeskStar at UDMA33 for about a month until I solved the IRQ conflict at PCI 5 and (with the updated HPT drivers) got it going at UDMA66.

SiSoft Sandra reported a 7,800 mark at the UDMA33 setting and 10,500 at UDMA66. So about a 25% increase was noted. I'm pleased with the drive and "feel" a much bigger speed increase than Sandra reports.

Sandra's data base indicates that a UDMA66 drive about this size should be around 13,000. Is it Sandra or the BE6-II? Good question, hope someone has the answer.

You have probably noticed that in Device Manager you do not have a DMA check box for the UDMA66 drive. I also have a UDMA33 Quantum in this PC and that drive has a DMA check box. Also Device Manager seems to treat the UDMA66 by default as a SCSI device as far as the other settings are concerned. Has anyone fooled with these settings and benchmarked to see how (if at all) they effect the speed?

[Cobra]

Hi.
I have same kind of a problems with my BE6-2 and IBM GP25 ser. 15,2 Gb Ultra-ata66 hard drive. My BE6-2 has an QY bios an latest Highpoint drivers (dated 17.3.00).
SiSoft Sandra 2000 Pro shows that an average access time on my IBM is over 50ms and gives a 6600 drives benchmark. I had earlier Abit BH6 and I got much more higher rates, drives benchmark went over 11000 and average access time was 9ms(UDMA 33 mode on). My opinion is that Sandra does not understand fully Higpoint drivers, because if I bencmark my IBM with HDTach or with SCSI bencmark, I get the right results (comparing with my friends UDMA66 drive).

[Bonehead]

If you had monitoring the abit.mainboard. forum closely (Abit site/support) you would came to the conclusion that the Highpoint-66 controller was more a marketing thing. From the BE6 on it doesn't live up to the expection. The ATA-66 controller from PROMISE however does live up to make a speed jump, just not the Highpoint - even after numerous bios updates for the controller.

[Tom Pico]

Thanks Bonehead! Any solution for us boneheads with BE6-II's? Ditch the onboard UDMA66 for an add-on card? Ugh!