Re: [CentOS] Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

Am Dienstag, den 11.05.2010, 11:38 +0530 schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan:

Greetings,

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, David Suhendrik david@pnyet.web.id wrote:

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@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.

As will setting the operation mode in mode in BIOS from compatible to SATA. First thing i do on all HP servers when they are shipped.

Chris