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On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 22:40 -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:
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> > Why is my SATA drive showing up under /dev/hdb?
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> Your motherboard is running in IDE emulation mode and
> exposing the SATA drives as IDE drives. Many motherboards
> have this mode to make things 'easier' for certain older O/Ss.
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Unfortunatly, there is no option to change this. I will search for a new BIOS
for it, but as the system will be running off a flash drive in production I am
not in a hurry.
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That's exactly the reason your HDD is so slow.<BR>
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Have seen this before on an 1,5 TB, SATA Samsung HDD (please don't laugh), with IDE Emulation in BIOS. Took me about 2 days to format it and to install the OS on it. As soon as I switched to native SATA in BIOS, everything went smooth: less than 30 mins from start to end.<BR>
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