Has anyone experienced problems upgrading their IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T43 to Slackware 12?

I am a longtime slackware user. I have just upgraded from slackware 10.1 to 12.0. Everything "works", but the system is unbearably slow. I am in the process of recompiling the kernel, but at this rate, it will take over two hours to complete.

I have turned off every process/service that I can. I am now running the most bare bones system possible, but it still it too slow to use. Has anyone experienced this problem?

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Maybe the disk DMA is not enabled, since T43 is using a Intel Pentium M 750 (1.86GHz) CPU. It shouldn't be that slow to build the kernel.

Thanks, but I don't think that's the problem. I have attached the output of hdparm -i /dev/sda.

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/dev/sda:

Model=HTS541080G9AT00 , FwRev=MB4IA60A, SerialNo= MPB4LAX6GLRKXM
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7539kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a: ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6

* signifies the current active mode

top is clear? cpufreq? Throttling?