[TriLUG] Slow hard drive Centos 5.6

[Mike Norwood]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I can not find anything in this BIOS that 
allows me to make any useful changes involving the hard drive or it's 
controller.    I am just using F2 when system boots which seems pretty 
standard with Dell, and I get into the setup, but it seems like they give 
pretty limited options with this machine.

Thanks, Mike

On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Alan Sterger wrote:

> In my Dell BIOS, there is a setting Advanced Chipset Features > 
> Integrated Peripherals > SATA Mode.  Initially, this was set to ATA.  
> Change it to RAID.  This enables AHCI which enables the faster SATA mode 
> drivers.  Note, setting RAID mode in BIOS will NOT implement RAID, just 
> the AHCI drivers.  Certainly, Dell's initial ATA setting was to lower 
> support calls.
> 
> However, proceeding with a Ctrl-I at boot, WILL take you into Intel's 
> Rapid Storage Technology option ROM that will reformat.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Alan
>