[CentOS] Strangely slow disk
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Sun Dec 4 21:25:13 UTC 2011
Ho Chaw Ming wrote:
> I have a 1.5TB Western Digital hard disk (WD15EADS-00R6B0) on my
> CentOS-5.7 server, which has become incredibly slow for some operations,
> eg rsync, BackupPC archive, e2fsck, although it seems to work fine for
> ordinary file operations, and "smartctl -a /dev/sdb" does not report any
> errors.
> Check your bios, and make sure that you did not have IDE mode enabled and
> AHCI is selected .
Thanks for your response, and for the others received.
But I should have pointed out that the slow operation
has only started recently, in the last week or so,
after working normally since I acquired the disk a year or so ago.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
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