> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 5:10 PM > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Tomas <[email protected]> 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.
