Re: IDE, controller, ????

Dan Miner <dminer84@xxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:


That is *way* too long.

I've never installed Sarge but most of my Linux distro installs are
around 30-50 mins depending on package size. I installed Ubuntu in 20
minutes under VMware a week ago.

I am suspecting your having a problem with the IDE driver and your IDE
controller. For example, if DMA is turned off for some reason, you'll
get like 4-5MB/s transfer rates.... this will take forever with today's
distros.

Some chipsets end up with DMA turned off by default but CAN have it turned
on... So during the install try flipping to a command line console and
typing

hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc

(might as well speed cdrom transfers too)

If that doesn't work the only other thing that causes massive formatting
times is bad harddisks... check it for bad blocks.

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