Ronald wrote: > Would using SCSI drive significantly improve the installing > time? (halve it?) In my case at least the aic7xxx driver takes a long time to register the SCSI disks on my system, so it certainly would not be faster. This doesn't worry me as I hardly ever re-boot. Also there may well be some way to speed up this registration. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland