> > 
> > 	I have an old 486DX25 with two HDs - a 80mb Western Digital and a
> > Seagate 100mb (both IDE). The WD drive works fine in normal speed, but the
> > Seagate is barely usable because it is so slow. Formatting takes forever
> > on that drive, and using it causes the system to go slow (it is my /usr).
> > I'm currently running 1.3.2 on that machine because of that, and recently
> > tried a 1.4N kernel and got the same problems.
> > 
> > What's going on here?
> 
> Do you get 'lost interrupt' messages for this disk ?
> 
Haven't seen any of those errors, but that's probably because I haven't
checked any of the logs from that machine.