In December we reported about VIA admittance of PCI performance problems in conjunction with the use of RAID controllers originally discovered by TecChannel. Though VIA has released their own solution in form of the the VIA RAID Performance Patch 1.05 programmer George E. Breese has now released an updated version of his PCI latency patch...

Experimental Version 0.19d 2/11/02: Download | View FAQ file | View TECHNOTE.HTM file This version is designed to maximize the performance of RAID IDE and SCSI controllers. It has not been tested for compatibility with sound cards. Please use this on a trial basis only, and report your findings to Feedback. Be sure to mention which version of the patch you are trying, and what model of motherboard is in your computer. This version has a known issue: copying from a PCI network card to a local RAID hard disk is slow. This is a Windows driver that will patch motherboards that have VIA chipsets. It is intended to solve these problems: Files copied from one IDE hard disk drive to another are corrupted The computer stops ("freezes", "hangs", "locks up") when playing sounds, especially to a Creative SoundBlaster LIVE! card The computer stops when copying to or from an IDE DVD, CDROM, or CDRW drive