[SOLVED] Re: Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

[David Suhendrik <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the help, a solution to this problem is to update the bios, 
and after using the newest version of bios I can use AHCI mode on the 
sata controller, and indeed this is the problem.

But I had to install windows server to update the bios, then installed 
again using Linux.

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Best regards,
David
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On 05/12/2010 02:52 AM, Christoph Maser wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  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
>
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