[TriLUG] Slow hard drive Centos 5.6

[Mike Norwood]

Ron,

Thanks for quick reply. The problem is the stupid Dell bios which really 
doesn't seem to let you change anything of importance. I can't see any way 
to actually affect the hard drive settings.

Mike

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Ron Kelley wrote:

> Check to see if the BIOS settings for the HDDs are set for AHCI instead of IDE (or compatible).  /dev/hda implies older IDE drives - thus pointing to the slowness you are experiencing.
> 
> Thanks,
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> Ron Kelley
> rkelleyrtp at gmail.com
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> On Oct 5, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Mike Norwood wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > We have been purchasing Dell Vostro's and loading them with Centos and 
> > everything has been working great.  Recently Dell changed their models on 
> > their slim tower Vostro's from 230 to 260, which meant they got rid of PCI 
> > slots for PCIexpress and got rid of the still useful serial port.  We have 
> > been loading Centos 5.6 and it still loads fine and everything works, but 
> > the hard drive performance is now so much slower.  It now sees the SATA 
> > drive as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda.   Google searches say to check the 
> > bios and make sure all the SATA stuff is turned on, but these Dell 
> > computers have very limited bios settings and no real control over 
> > anything.  Just wondered if anyone else had ever seen anything similar or 
> > had any possible solutions.  
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,  Mike in Hillsborough
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