Does not contain sata drivers if the documentation is current on the slackware home page. So using speakup.s to install puts which drivers in control of the hard drive with a sata disk in the computer with what consequences? I don't remember, does the boot disk and root disk combination go out and check for hardware and install what's needed or just use what's in the kernel on the boot disk? Jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net> "I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side." ~ Bill Hicks