> > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 5:10 PM > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Tomas <s.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Like the subject implies - I would like to know how long it > > should take for > > > a fsck to check a 300GB hdd. I think that my pc's fsck is > > checking a 300GB > > > for too long - about 45 minutes. And during install it took > > approximately > > > the same amount of time to format it. Is this normal? > > > > 45 minutes to run newfs is very excessive. To run fsck on something > > that big isn't unreasonable though. 15-30 sec per GB is normal I'd > > say. > > Agree. I've got the same board with couple of TB of disks and newfs > was very quick, probably under 1 min (with ~400-500GB slices and 64K > blocks). > > I can't reach it right now so no dmesg, but there's something definetly > wrong with the posted dmesg. There should be ahci instead of pciide. > > The the OP: Did you set AHCI mode in BIOS? Also, I've had better luck > with mp kernel and acpi instead of apm. Try disabling apm in UKC.
I don't have access to that machine right now, but when I'll get it, I'll post about bios settings. And I want to mention the answer to this thread by Brynet (if u haven't seen it). " Hi Tomas, Devin Smith mentioned this exact chipset on the list before, the controller is supported by ahci(4) by toggling a BIOS option, or manual patching. http://www.devinsmith.net/journal/aug_2008.html http://marc.info/?t=121981912700002&r=1&w=2 Also, you might want to try playing with ACPI instead of apm(4)+pcibios(4).. only when you have some free time. -Brynet "
