Dennis1959 wrote on Today, 02:20:

I have bought 2, I still have 512mb cf card but the thing kept comming up system halted basic something or other, I bought a fiffernt adaptor, same thing system halted, I went looking for an XTIDE card but they are sold out on ebay and my hands are really deformed from arthritus so even though I have the stuff to put a kit together I just don't want to try. That why I dropped the hard drive 🤣

I have same board as you, i have lot of CF cards from 256mb to 32gb and 0 problems

Dropping into ROM BASIC sounds like a BIOS configuration problem rather than a hardware problem, but I will point out that CF depends on the specific card and is not the automatic painless option it's sometimes suggested to be ("IDE through a passive adapter"). Plucking certain IDE pins for better CF-IDE compatibility

I was recently convinced (by Eep386) to try one of those SD-IDE adapters that use the FC1307 chip. It works great. MWDMA2 even works with 430FX (had to use ide0=serialize on linux for concurrent CD-ROM accesses to not get dma errors, but I don't blame that on the SD-IDE), and UDMA works on VIA VPX and 430TX. You do have to use a good SD card though; the first one I used was terrible, then I got a 75mb write speed rated one from B&H Photo and it's working nicely.