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Don Y wrote: Very lucky indeed! Yeah, wives are interesting creatures. :-) That's where I had mine for the longest time - the voyager, not the wife. :-) But two years ago, I found myself a decent job that provided a lovely thinkpad with a dock, so the Voyager went into the museum. Granted, they can do NFS, but these machines are already painfully slow to begin with. Anything you can add to speed them up helps. 1GB CF cards are cheap and fast these days, maybe you can go that route with a cheap PCMCIA<->CF cradle. You probably can't boot the voyager off a CF card, but, you can certainly store swap+/tmp and /home there. When I had the Voyager on the kitchen table I had two 128M CF cards in it, so that way swap was distributed across two drives. I don't recall whether the PCMCIA bus on these multi-tasks well enough to get a performance increase, but I hoped it did. :-D I got rid of most of my sparcs, but held on to a few interesting ones... For a short while, my house was "sparc-henge." Yes, most of the early used use SCSI drives (Duo 230, PB145, etc). Some of the newer ones (5300ce), use IDE which makes life easier. It used to be that SCSI got you better performance, but of course modern 2.5" IDE drives are a lot faster than the older 2.5" SCSI drives used in these beasties.