Thanks for the response. Unfortunately /dev/hda was unavailable after I tried that. ________________________________ From: Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 6:29:16 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slow IDE on GeForce 8200 board On 08/12/2009 01:34 AM, Ian Murray wrote: ... > Under Ubuntu (NB the drive was under /dev/sdb under Ubuntu - is this a clue?!?):- Some HP machines have the same symptoms you describe: Slow disk IO with CentOS, fast with Fedora. The cure is to append hda=noprobe hdc=noprobe to the startup parameters in /boot/grub/grub.conf. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Mobile: +45 22 12 53 25 Email: mk at crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090812/283619b1/attachment-0005.html>