On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 11:39:37AM -0500, static wrote:
> 	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.

I've seen this problem too, with old IDE disks. Some other people have
as well. I've not been able to track this down, unfortunately, and
Manuel doesn't have any disk that it shows up on, so it's hard for
him to fix :-(

- Frank