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SCSI drives performing poorly on Windows XP | |
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| Time: 11:14 EST/16:14 GMT | News Source: | Posted By: Alex Harris | ||
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Reports on the 2CPU forums and elsewhere suggest that SCSI systems only give very slender performance gains over IDE with Windows XP, leading some corporate users to complain that the problem lies in the operating system rather than the drives. One IT director told the INQUIRER today: "I've just bought an expensive SCSI RAID system for my development PC at work that runs XP. "After installing it, I noticed only a modest performance improvement over the previous IDE system after spending £1500." After reading this thread on 2CPU, he said: "Compared to W2K (Windows 2000), the same hardware runs slower by a factor of two or three". There is more discussion on this topic in the Storage Review forums – see this thread. |
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| #1 By 7826 (65.205.133.2) at Friday, June 28, 2002 11:52:09 AM |
| It's a known issue and old news. MS already has a KB article on it long time ago. |
| #2 By 1124 (165.170.128.66) at Friday, June 28, 2002 12:05:55 PM |
| When we said we wanted more news, I wish their was a choice for no more Inquiry and The Register "news". |
| #3 By 3 (62.253.128.4) at Friday, June 28, 2002 12:09:36 PM |
| #2 - there would be less but you all click their stories the most ;o) |
| #4 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at Friday, June 28, 2002 12:12:32 PM |
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Wow, this is a new low. These guys want to write something bad about MS so bad that they're lurking through forums looking for anyone who has a complaint or problem with Windows XP. Great news source, guys (Inquirer).
Next, we'll probably see a story from them that says somthing like: Windows XP users having problems with Start menu "According to Forum X from website Y, user LeeTBoYxxYxx says, 'I CANT GET MY STARTS MEUN TO OPEN RIGHT. WHAT DO I HAEV TO DO PLEASE!!!! URGETNS!!!!!' From this, we can assume that Windows XP's start menu is horribly broken. MS has some answering to do in the community that such a major feature of their new prided OS is defective." |
| #5 By 2062 (67.0.52.153) at Friday, June 28, 2002 12:29:02 PM |
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there's been a fix available for months.
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308219 -gosh |
| #6 By 1124 (165.170.128.66) at Friday, June 28, 2002 02:10:08 PM |
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Hey Byron_Hinson[AW],
I think The Register and the Inquirer are like the tabloids. No one admits to reading them but they have the largest readership(and stupid articles). |
| #7 By 478 (65.103.180.27) at Friday, June 28, 2002 03:42:08 PM |
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I most certainly agree with the problem, having work with it for the past 4 months.
I applied the fix after MS allow me to have it and was of no help [they do say that the real fix will be with SP1]. I do use SCSI Bernoullis and XP performance improve significantly after (by serendipy) I applied the last set of iomega (3.11) drivers, changing the iomdisk.sys to v:2.0.1.0 (which is not digitaly signed). The Adaptec SCSI driver, [aic78U2.sys, v:3.60a] which is only available in the XP-CD, remains the same. Mind you, this is a cuadruple boot computer (ME/NT4-SP6a/W2k-SP2/XP-Pro) all run with a 2940U2W controller and with LVD-SCSI IBM Ultrastar drives. The better performance of SCSI in the non-XP OS is noticeable. The MS tech that was helping me with this issue, was blown out when I told him about my Iomega drivers experience, after we work with the problem for a month a half. |
| #8 By 3465 (68.48.198.36) at Friday, June 28, 2002 07:38:48 PM |
| That's what you get using XP. |
| #9 By 478 (65.101.163.45) at Friday, June 28, 2002 11:21:49 PM |
| So, is Adaptec doing something about it? I tought the native XP drivers were from Adaptec. |
