[CentOS] Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

[Rajagopal Swaminathan]

Greetings,

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, David Suhendrik <david at pnyet.web.id> wrote:
> @Rajagopal:
>
> This result:
> # hdparm -tT /dev/hda5
>
> /dev/hda5:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:    8 MB in  3.08 seconds =   2.60 MB/sec
>

First of all it should report /dev/sda and not /dev/hda

It is a horrible speed for modern disks.


Modern SATA disks show around 50-80 MB/Sec

I am sure ide0noprobe=no (or zero -- check docs) in the kernel mline
will surely speed up in addition to other suggestions will
dramatically speed up.


Regards,

Rajagopal