It's probably using minimal bandwidth while you're using the system.
cd /proc/sys/dev/raid
echo 500000 > speed_limit_max
echo 100000 > speed_limit_min
It'll finish much faster...
(The default values were 100000 and 100 last time I looked).
Robert
Thus spake Nicos Gollan (gtdev@spearhead.de):
> Hi all...
>
> I just started building a software RAID1 array on two IDE disks. Now I'm a
> little unsure whether it's running like it should. Looking at /proc/mdstat,
> I'm shown a speed of about 275K/sec and an estimated remaining time somewhat
> short of 70(!!) hours. Is this normal? /proc/ide/via says that the disks are
> using UDMA33, hdparm happily agrees but I've still got a load of 3.00.
>
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