Jude There are 2 images in slackware that your can use that have speakup. speakup.i and speakup.s One being for ide drives and the other for scsi. Slackware assumes that you will be building your own kernel as soon as you have booted up and installed the system. There would be way to many floppy images if they included every peace of hardware support in to them. I do however imagine that they would have given you scsi emulation support as a module. You would have to config your system to load the module and then tell your system to have hdd be a emulated scsi device. --FC