Jason writes:
  Another setback is it's HD.  It's a 20MB
Western digital -
 and slow as a turtle.  Does anyone, by any chance, have a spare
 XT-compatible IDE HD without a stepper motor driving the heads??
 ThAnX,
 --
          -Jason
 (roblwill(a)usaor.net)
    ICQ#-1730318 
Try an ST-251-1.  It's the voice-coil version of the ST-251 and clocks in
at 28ms.  You can't have mine.  I use them on uVAXen.
-ethan