On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:27:30 +0000 (GMT), Paul Fidler  
<praf1@eng.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>   hda: SajDisk SDCFH-112, ATA DISK drive
>
> which I think should actually say:
>
>   hda: SanDisk SDCFH-512, ATA DISK drive

Hmm. That seems both promising, and fixable. Have you had a squint at the  
board, to see if there's an obvious short on the CF socket pins? They're  
mechanically fragile...
If you can stick the board on a flatbed scanner and send me the image,  
I'll also have a look...

Steve