Causes and solutions for slow hard disk formatting during Linux Installation

When installing RedHatEnterpriseLinuxserver5.4, the progress of formatting A 1 TB hard disk was not normal one afternoon. I thought it was because there was too much data on the hard disk, so it was slow and I went home directly after work, the formatting speed was still slow when I came to the boot and re-installed this morning. The original machine was installed with the windows2003 system, and the formatting speed was fast without any problems during the installation, which was not a hardware problem, I searched the internet and found that many people encountered the same problem, which was originally caused by the hard disk mode.

When installing RedHat Enterprise Linux server 5.4, the progress of formatting A 1 TB hard disk could not be normal one afternoon. I thought it was because there was too much data on the hard disk, so it was slow and I went home directly after work, the formatting speed was still slow when I came to the power-on and re-installation this morning. The original machine was installed with a windows 2003 system, and the formatting speed was fast without any problems during installation. It was impossible to solve hardware problems, I searched the internet and found that many people encountered the same problem, which was originally caused by the hard disk mode.

Solution:

Enter the bios to change the hard disk MODE, and change the sata hard disk MODE to AHCI. If the Bios is Award, change the sata mode to the one starting with "En" in the enhanced MODE.