I have four 32-bit desktop comps (three AMDs and one PIII from Intel) having a common feature that they manage to write a 500kb file in about _20 minutes_ to a floppy. (Reading from floppy is not affected.)
It's reproducible and is not dependent on the way, how I try to copy the file(s), under Konqueror in KDE, mc under icewm or e.g. through ssh. I also attempted to use various floppy-disks (, but all with existing FAT), tried to turn off 'sync' for the device in fstab, etc.
Please let me know, which logs you would need to show, that this problem exists; I didn't touch any of the systems subfs and (expect for the tests) I use the original/default fstab entries for the floppy.