>I don't have an i386 running 1.5 or even close yet, and don't want to
>upgrade this laptop until I can test that reading of CF cards will
>work at least as well as before.

are you stuck on 1.5, or will current do?  i've got a 128 meg cf card
that works just fine under current.

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