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.