[CentOS] Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

Tue May 11 19:52:16 UTC 2010
Christoph Maser <cmaser at gmx.de>

Am Dienstag, den 11.05.2010, 11:38 +0530 schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan:
> Greetings,
> 
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, David Suhendrik <david at pnyet.web.id> wrote:
> > @Rajagopal:
> >
> > This result:
> > # hdparm -tT /dev/hda5
> >
> > /dev/hda5:
> >  Timing buffered disk reads:    8 MB in  3.08 seconds =   2.60 MB/sec
> >
> 
> First of all it should report /dev/sda and not /dev/hda
> 
> It is a horrible speed for modern disks.
> 
> 
> Modern SATA disks show around 50-80 MB/Sec
> 
> I am sure ide0noprobe=no (or zero -- check docs) in the kernel mline
> will surely speed up in addition to other suggestions will
> dramatically speed up.


As will setting the operation mode in mode in BIOS from compatible to
SATA. First thing i do on all HP servers when they are shipped.

Chris