[CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow

Thu May 6 22:38:38 UTC 2010
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----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?



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