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I have a MSI Hermes-651P desktop computer

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/produc...il.php?UID=418

with a PCMCIA slot.

I use a Knoppix 3.3 (19 nov 2003) both from CDROM,
and from HD (the system is working without glitches
with Slackware, Mandrake,RedHat and Window$ XP too).

Running Knoppix, inserting a 64 MB Compact Flash into slot 0, the machine hang.
The /var/log/messages follows:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
---- This are the messages for embedded IDE controllers
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Dec 8 14:00:55 andrewh3 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Dec 8 14:00:55 andrewh3 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Dec 8 14:00:55 andrewh3 kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Dec 8 14:00:55 andrewh3 kernel: hda: host protected area => 1
Dec 8 14:00:55 andrewh3 kernel: hda: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=9732/255/63
Dec 8 14:00:55 andrewh3 kernel: ide-cd: passing drive hdc to ide-scsi emulation.
Dec 8 14:00:55 andrewh3 kernel: hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
Dec 8 14:00:55 andrewh3 kernel: Partition check:
Dec 8 14:00:55 andrewh3 kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda4
Dec 8 14:00:55 andrewh3 kernel: ide: late registration of driver.
...
...
...
--- Insert the PCMCIA card
Dec 8 14:02:13 andrewh3 kernel: hde: SanDisk SDCFB-64, CFA DISK drive
Dec 8 14:02:13 andrewh3 kernel: ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 7
Dec 8 14:02:13 andrewh3 kernel: hde: attached ide-disk driver.
--- System hangs -----


Note that on same system RedHat 8.0 is able to get the card
inserted:

Dec 8 14:25:26 andrewh2 kernel: hde: SanDisk SDCFB-64, ATA DISK drive
Dec 8 14:25:26 andrewh2 kernel: ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 9
Dec 8 14:25:26 andrewh2 kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Dec 8 14:25:26 andrewh2 kernel: hde: 125440 sectors (64 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=490/8/32
Dec 8 14:25:26 andrewh2 kernel: hde: hde1
Dec 8 14:25:26 andrewh2 kernel: ide_cs: hde: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
Dec 8 14:25:26 andrewh2 cardmgr[604]: executing: './ide start hde'
...
---- Is now possible to mount the file system on the card


Last, the same card is working without problems on a IBM laptop
with the same Knoppix 3.3 bootstraped from CDROM.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance

*am*