I've been reading this thread with some interest. I've found a supplier of Mark's adaptor here in the UK at a reasonable price. I'm curious as to how much faster an Empeg would be booting from cold with the master drive replaced by CF + adaptor.

I have a 10GB master and a 40GB slave. I was debating replacing the 10GB master with an 8GB CF + adaptor to gain a faster boot. Would this configuration work?

Also, with a USB card reader, would I be able to copy the contents of the 10 gig HDD across to the CF before installation thereby negating the need for a complete software / music installation?