[CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow

Fri May 7 02:40:38 UTC 2010
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Heller
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 22:30
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
> 
> At Thu, 6 May 2010 17:37:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jason Pyeron
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 17:32
> > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Benjamin Franz
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 17:12
> > > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is 
> very slow
> > > > 
> > > > On 05/06/2010 11:16 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > > > > It is writing an inode every 10 seconds. (1621 inodes 
> in total)
> > > > >
> > > > > It is a recent Seagate sata HD.
> > > > >
> > > > > MB=Jetway J7F5M1G2E-VHE-PB
> > 
> > Why is my SATA drive showing up under /dev/hdb?
> 
> Your motherboard is running in IDE emulation mode and 
> exposing the SATA drives as IDE drives.  Many motherboards 
> have this mode to make things 'easier' for certain older O/Ss.
> 

Unfortunatly, there is no option to change this. I will search for a new BIOS
for it, but as the system will be running off a flash drive in production I am
not in a hurry.


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