In message <19990729013541.A15096@rek.tjls.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
>No, no, it's not.  It's just wires.  The *CompactFlash card itself* has
>both IDE controller and disk emulation built onto it.

Yow!

>You can get another adapter for like $10 if you're worried that it's
>the cause of the problem -- SanDisk used to give them away free with
>every card, actually, though they eventually stopped.

Yeah, that's how I got this one.

>> If I put it in, my machine locks up, after complaining about an expected
>> thing never occurring.  It doesn't probe as anything.  It works fine in a
>> mac.

>You might try booting with the card inserted -- I haven't actually
>ever tried hot-swapping wdc.

Same result.

pcic_chip_socket_enable: status c
pcic_wait_ready: ready never happened, status = 0c

(I inserted the newline)

The card works fine in my Psion and in my camera, and it's a SanDisk.  ;-)

I'm mostly running -current/i386.

-s