Hello,

> Hey, that's some verbose output... =)
I warned you ;)
 
> > It contains...
> > - experimental PCMCIA support. PLEASE test it, the only PCMCIA card I
> >   can find right now is an unsupported PRISM3 wlan card.
> 
> I've got 2 PCMCIA cards, a 3COM 3C589D and a PQI PCMCIA->CF adapter.

...
> Down below is the dmesg after inserting and removing each of the cards,
> both top and bottom slots for the 3Com, just the bottom slot for the
> flash reader.  The flash reader looks like it might have worked had the
> /dev/wd* entries been there.
Hmm, the disk looks a bit too big. The 3com probably didn't work because the driver still gets endianness wrong.

This one is more interesting..
> wd0 at atabus0 drive 0tslot0: interrupt on socket 0 ir 931 sts 8f23
> : <i51nA adtpre>
> wd0: drive supports 1-sector PIO transfers, chs addressing
> wd0: 49152 MB, 50435 cyl, 4096 head, 8192 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 100663296 sectors
... is this what you get on other machines too?
At least /something/ works :)

have fun
Michael