John R Pierce <pierce at ...> writes: > > Les Mikesell wrote: > > It should only take a couple of hours anyway unless there is a lot of > > other activity on the partition. Something must be wrong with the > > controller or drive. > > > > > > The IOSTAT output earlier showing the drives 100% busy at 1.8MB/sec > tells me they are running in ISA PIO mode. there's a issue with the > disk controller support and how its configured. > [SOLVED] Thanks all I powered down the box and changed the SATA mode in BIOS f4rom Auto to Serial ATA. That did the trick cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] resync=DELAYED md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 4096448 blocks [2/2] [UU] resync=DELAYED md2 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0] 484182912 blocks [2/2] [UU] [=>...................] resync = 5.6% (27346752/484182912) finish=68.6min speed=110970K/sec unused devices: <none> ======= iostat -x 5 outpur (4th or 5th one) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.00 0.00 2.60 0.00 0.00 97.40 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda 1752.89 0.00 259.68 0.00 257584.03 0.00 991.93 2.47 9.52 3.85 99.86 sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sda3 1752.89 0.00 259.68 0.00 257584.03 0.00 991.93 2.47 9.52 3.85 99.86 sdb 0.00 1752.69 0.00 259.68 0.00 257609.58 992.02 1.51 5.80 3.85 99.86 sdb1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sdb2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sdb3 0.00 1752.69 0.00 259.68 0.00 257609.58 992.02 1.51 5.80 3.85 99.86 md2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 md1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 md0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 =========== hdparm -tT output hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 27444 MB in 1.99 seconds = 13802.85 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 378 MB in 3.01 seconds = 125.67 MB/sec [root at localhost ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 27116 MB in 1.99 seconds = 13636.74 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 398 MB in 3.01 seconds = 132.35 MB/sec [root at localhost ~]# Thanks again Regards Rajagopal