Ho Chaw Ming wrote: > I have a 1.5TB Western Digital hard disk (WD15EADS-00R6B0) on my > CentOS-5.7 server, which has become incredibly slow for some operations, > eg rsync, BackupPC archive, e2fsck, although it seems to work fine for > ordinary file operations, and "smartctl -a /dev/sdb" does not report any > errors. > Check your bios, and make sure that you did not have IDE mode enabled and > AHCI is selected . Thanks for your response, and for the others received. But I should have pointed out that the slow operation has only started recently, in the last week or so, after working normally since I acquired the disk a year or so ago. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos