-----Original Message----- From: Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 17:44 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
Tim Nelson wrote:
----- "Jason Pyeron" jpyeron@pdinc.us wrote:
Why is my SATA drive showing up under /dev/hdb?
Check your BIOS and set the SATA controller mode to
'NATIVE'. Right now, I'd be willing to bet it's in 'Legacy' or something similar which causes the drives to run in IDE mode, hence why your drive shows up as hdb instead of sdb. This translated legacy mode is horribly slow.
The bios gave me a choice of IDE/RAID, RAID=kernel panic.
Next setting was to disable OnChip IDE Channel1, no increase in speed.
Re-installing.
it shouldn't be as slow as it is if its using IDE UltraDMA. but its using IDE PIO, which *is* horribly slow. I wonder if the SATA chipset this board uses is unsupported?
How should I check?
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