[CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow

[John R Pierce]

Tim Nelson wrote:
> ----- "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron at pdinc.us> wrote:
>   
>> Why is my SATA drive showing up under /dev/hdb?
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>>     
>
> 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.
>   

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?