Thanks for the response. Unfortunately /dev/hda was unavailable after I tried that.
From: Mogens Kjaer <mk@xxxxxx>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 6:29:16
Subject: Re: Slow IDE on GeForce 8200 board
On 08/12/2009 01:34 AM, Ian Murray wrote:
...
> Under Ubuntu (NB the drive was under /dev/sdb under Ubuntu - is this a clue?!?):-
Some HP machines have the same symptoms you describe:
Slow disk IO with CentOS, fast with Fedora.
The cure is to append
hda=noprobe hdc=noprobe
to the startup parameters in /boot/grub/grub.conf.
Mogens
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