Jason Pyeron wrote: >> What do you get from running 'iostat -kx 5' (be sure to wait >> until the second report) while the formatting is running? >> > > avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle > 0.53 0.00 99.47 0.00 0.00 0.00 > > Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz wait svctm %util > hdb 0.00 1881.32 0.00 27.11 0.00 7663.16 565.44 2.66 98.12 35.34 95.79 > looks like its running in PIO IDE emulation mode per... * 99% CPU busy in system, * 7.7MByte/sec writes, * 95% disk utilization.