On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 22:40 -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > > 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. That's exactly the reason your HDD is so slow. Have seen this before on an 1,5 TB, SATA Samsung HDD (please don't laugh), with IDE Emulation in BIOS. Took me about 2 days to format it and to install the OS on it. As soon as I switched to native SATA in BIOS, everything went smooth: less than 30 mins from start to end. Calin Key fingerprint = 37B8 0DA5 9B2A 8554 FB2B 4145 5DC1 15DD A3EF E857 ================================================= We have phasers, I vote we blast 'em! -- Bailey, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.2 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100507/22bd4a9e/attachment-0005.html>