HD Install :: cfdisk, don't know designation of the CF-card

Quote (bartgrefte @ Mar. 23 2009,03:21)

So it's not a problem with DSL, or Windows XP for that matter, but what is? I'm thinking incompatiblity issue between BIOS and the PATA->CF reader

as a matter of interest, what is geometry the report from >sudo sfdisk /dev/hdx
?
is it

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Disk /dev/hda: 2063 MB, 2063597568 bytes 64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 999 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes

Quote (humpty @ Mar. 24 2009,03:14)

as a matter of interest, what is geometry the report from >sudo sfdisk /dev/hdx ? is it Code Sample Disk /dev/hda: 2063 MB, 2063597568 bytes 64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 999 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes

I get this after "sudo sfdisk /dev/hda":

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Disk /dev/hda: 245 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Units = cylinders of 8225200 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0.

Beneath that it shows 4 partitions , but hda2/3/4 are empty/0bytes in size. Get that with both the Lilo DSL as with the GRUB DSL (got them installed on sepperate CF-cards, Windows XP too, although XP didn't get to the 2nd part of the installation since it can't boot)

Got word back from MSI. They think that the PATA->CF adapter is incompatible with the motherboard. They've tried to use one too, only different one, but it works when they tried.
Curious what could be incompatible, since I can see, in the BIOS, the brand/size/typeofcard without problems. The PATA->CF adapter should display the CF-card as a standard harddrive, so no clue what could go wrong there.

Still no word from Mini-Box though, send another email (with some additions from what I've done/tried/posted here)...