Just a post in case anyone was following this thread. The HPT370 controller is working just fine. I was the problem in the equation. You just don't see as well in your mid fifties as when you were younger. On close inspection I noticed that I had placed one of the 80 pin ribbon cables marked with blue to the hard drive instead of the controller. After I switched everything came up fine under SCSI in device manager and benchmarks accordingly to the new xfer rates. Makes quite a difference.