[TriLUG] Slow hard drive Centos 5.6

[Ron Kelley]

Hey Mike,

When booted, run "hdparm -I /dev/hda" and see what it says.  I wonder if upgrading to CentOS 5.7 (or even 6.0) would fix some sort of chip related issue (as in, newer SATA chips on the MB not properly recognized in 5.6)

Thanks,

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Ron Kelley
rkelleyrtp at gmail.com



On Oct 5, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Mike Norwood wrote:

> 
> 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,
>> 
>> -----------------------------
>> Ron Kelley
>> rkelleyrtp at gmail.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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