> -----Original Message-----
> From: Behalf Of John R Pierce
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 17:44
> Subject: Re: Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
>
> Tim Nelson wrote:
> > ----- "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Why is my SATA drive showing up under /dev/hdb?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Check your BIOS and set the SATA controller mode to
> 'NATIVE'. Right now, I'd be willing to bet it's in 'Legacy'
> or something similar which causes the drives to run in IDE
> mode, hence why your drive shows up as hdb instead of sdb.
> This translated legacy mode is horribly slow.
> >
The bios gave me a choice of IDE/RAID, RAID=kernel panic.
Next setting was to disable OnChip IDE Channel1, no increase in speed.
Re-installing.
>
> it shouldn't be as slow as it is if its using IDE UltraDMA. but its
> using IDE PIO, which *is* horribly slow. I wonder if the
> SATA chipset
> this board uses is unsupported?
How should I check?
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