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Description of problem:
Harddisk - 40 GB, 5400 RPM - preinstalled

I thought the harddisk was about to collapse. When I opened maildirs in mutt, it
was extremely slow with reading the same file every time.

The computer was also very slow in opening terminal windows and starting emacs -nw.

So - I contacted Dell support, but they wouldn't help me of course, but I found
some help here:
<http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=linuxport&message.id=80>

I also got some DMA-error messages occasionally. I hope that this was the reason.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Gnome magicdev 1.1.4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Read a maildir in mutt
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Actual Results:  The harddisk is extremely slow for a few seconds

Expected Results:  It should have read with constant speed.

Additional info:

It was 3 seconds away from uninstalling RedHat and install some other
distribution instead... it seemed like a much bigger problem than it was (who
needs automount, anyway? :) )

And also - since it looked like a hardware error, I discreditted myself and
Redhat to the norwegian dell support ... :)