hi everyone, i have a 4.5gig, 10k RPM ultra2 SCSI drive with Symbios 53C896, (22910) controller was built in the board. i don't know why it's slower than my IDE 15gig with 7200RPM drive. both of them were made by Western Digital. there's no conflict or error anything. you guys have any idea why SCSI runs slower than IDE ? calvin

How is it that you know what drive is running faster? Did you measure the transfer rates? Are you compairing burst transfer rates or total throughput?...etc.

IDE takes less time to load the windows than the SCSI. when i turn the PC on the IDE goes to the windows faster than the SCSI. both drives were tested the same system.

SCSI cards have a BIOS. That BIOS must load but can't load untill the mother board loads. SCSI drives need to be terminated. Exactly what make and model are the drives. What kind of Motherboard. What is the first bootable device? Even though you have onboards SCSI it loads as though it was a PCI card.

this is my Board http://q-lity.com/products/p3bx-ds.html and here is my SCSI controller model Chip is "SYM53C896" and Host Adapter is "SYM22910" the controller was made by lsilogic.com. i dont' know much about the SCSI please help me make it runs faster. first bootable device is the Hard Drive calvin

Flash your BIOS to the current # @ ftp://ftp.q-lity.com/bios/P3BX-DS_M2I/ Flash your SCSI BIOS to the current revision @ ftp://ftp.q-lity.com/drivers/scsi/BIOS/ Compair the BIOS revision numbers to the ones at the site. If your # is lower follow the directions and flach the chips. DON'T DO THIS IF YOU ARE NOT SURE. You will have no BIOS and need a new board if the flash should go bad! While at that site check for other drivers. Frankly if you pick up another Proc. you can run Win2K w/SMP! That board is more of an economy server board than a workstation board. I'm not really sure what will happen with WinME and it??

Sorry about this but that board does not seem to be supported by WinME. I read everything and that board seems to be being phased out! I did not read one mention of ME there. I never heard of that board before so after looking at their site I could see why! ASUS has a lot of interesting boards this one is with the dual proc. http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/pentiumpro/cuv4x-dls/index.html This is the board that I use.. http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/socketa.html#cusl2-c_bp Naturally your proc will not work with these. Flip chips are in! AMD does not have anything to offer for SMP. Intell makes greeat server mothar boards..bla bla.... Over and out!