[CentOS] Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

Mon May 10 07:42:44 UTC 2010
kalinix <calin.kalinix.cosma at gmail.com>

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 10:03 +0700, David Suhendrik wrote:

> Dear All,
> I've a new server HP DL 180 G6 with quad core processor, ram 4 GB, hdd 
> (WDC) 1x750GB Sata.
> I was confused when installing CentOS 5 64bit on that server, I take 
> about two hours to format the ext3 file system. is this normal?
> 
> Because when I compare with other sata hard drive in another computer 
> file system format is not too long like that.
> And when I copy the file on the local hard drive for longer time when 
> compared with the copy of the file on another server.
> 
> How to debug on this issue?
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> David
> http://blog.pnyet.web.id
> 
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Could you please check in BIOS whether SATA is in native or IDE
emulation mode. I've seen this on systems where SATA were in IDE
emulation.


Calin

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