[CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 18:39
> To: 'CentOS mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
> 
> > -----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 at 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?
> 

Well I put the drive in a usb 2.0 enclosure, formatted in just a few seconds.


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