Floppy drive vs. SUSE 10.0

Hi, I have three comps with SUSE 10.0 installed. All of them desktops and all of them can copy a 500kb file in about _20 minutes_ to a floppy. No joke, but seemingly "common feature". Reading floppies is no problem at all, only writing to a floppy is like a nightmare. Anyone else seeing the same strange behaviour?! All of the systems fully updated and the automounter is active for floppy/CD. The corresponding fstab things are defaults from the installations themselves... Thanks, Pelibali