Thanks for the information! I still like messing around with bridgeboards, though in fact all of my 386/486SLC ones are broken at the moment :/
When they do run, though, I use a real IDE HDD. Best thing is you can get those little Disk-on-Module things that are about 2 or 4GB or so, really cheap, really fast, really small and silent. I actually run my Goldengate (when it's working) off my A1500's DOM 4GB module which has a PC partition.