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

2010-05-12 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 12 May 2010 12:01:06 +0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > I tried to change the configuration of a compatible sata in bios to AHCI, but > my hard drive is not detected. > I do not have a smart array controller. I do this AHCI features need smart > array controller? I've been loo

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

2010-05-11 Thread David Suhendrik
I tried to change the configuration of a compatible sata in bios to AHCI, but my hard drive is not detected. I do not have a smart array controller. I do this AHCI features need smart array controller? I've been looking for a reference, but did not find. Any suggestions? -- Best regards, David

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

2010-05-11 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 11.05.2010, 11:38 +0530 schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan: > Greetings, > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, David Suhendrik wrote: > > @Rajagopal: > > > > This result: > > # hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 > > > > /dev/hda5: > > Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.08 seconds = 2.60 MB

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

2010-05-10 Thread John R Pierce
David Suhendrik wrote: > @Rajagopal: > > This result: > # hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 > > /dev/hda5: > Timing cached reads: 9952 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4980.51 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.08 seconds = 2.60 MB/sec > 8MB/sec sounds like Programmed IO (PIO) to me. its proba

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

2010-05-10 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus David Suhendrik spake: > @Rajagopal: > > This result: > # hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 > > /dev/hda5: > Timing cached reads: 9952 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4980.51 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.08 seconds = 2.60 MB/sec > > @Tim

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

2010-05-10 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, David Suhendrik 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

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

2010-05-10 Thread David Suhendrik
@Rajagopal: This result: # hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 /dev/hda5: Timing cached reads: 9952 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4980.51 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.08 seconds = 2.60 MB/sec @Timo: 458930-B21 HP 750GB 7.2k HP MDL SATA I don't have idea for this case :( -- Best regards,

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

2010-05-10 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus David Suhendrik spake: > Dear All, > I've a new server HP DL 180 G6 with quad core processor, ram 4 GB, hdd > (WDC) 1x750GB Sata. > I was confused when installing CentOS 5 64bit on that server, I take > about two hours to format the ext3 file sy

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

2010-05-10 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:33 AM, David Suhendrik wrote: > Dear All, > How to debug on this issue? > Just run the hdparm -tT /dev/devname. If the speed is anything less than 30MB/s, try addind ide0probe=no in the kernel line of the grub check the man pages of course to get the corr

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

2010-05-10 Thread kalinix
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 10:03 +0700, David Suhendrik wrote: > Dear All, > I've a new server HP DL 180 G6 with quad core processor, ram 4 GB, hdd > (WDC) 1x750GB Sata. > I was confused when installing CentOS 5 64bit on that server, I take > about two hours to format the ext3 file system. is this no

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

2010-05-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/5/10 David Suhendrik : > Dear All, > I've a new server HP DL 180 G6 with quad core processor, ram 4 GB, hdd > (WDC) 1x750GB Sata. > I was confused when installing CentOS 5 64bit on that server, I take > about two hours to format the ext3 file system. is this normal? well, that size of ext3 us

[CentOS] Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

2010-05-09 Thread David Suhendrik
Dear All, I've a new server HP DL 180 G6 with quad core processor, ram 4 GB, hdd (WDC) 1x750GB Sata. I was confused when installing CentOS 5 64bit on that server, I take about two hours to format the ext3 file system. is this normal? Because when I compare with other sata hard drive in another c