On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:11:32PM -0700, Alan wrote:
I did not get a crash, just ungodly slowness with any storage device
on
the PCMCIA slot.
That is what I would expect. PCMCIA is ISA bus without DMA support. While
hdparm -u1 /dev/hdwhatever may make the box feel better it can't really
improve on PCMCIA device performance.