I'd try a few things: mix up the card you are using. I've found the generation of the CF card can matter. Not too old, not too new. Around 1GB seems to be the sweet spot. You can run out of memory formatting if your card/drive is too big. The format command does not fail gracefully when it runs...
Glen,
Is there a forum in the world that you're not monitoring? You're omnipresent!
As you know, I've got a bunch of these LAs based on very similar systems. I've had a few ideas/thoughts/projects around experimenting with writing drivers, adding LASI SCSI support to qemu, amongst others. It...
I'm looking for an HP 9000/778 Visualize Workstation, either a B160L or B180L+.
I'll be at VCF East in a few weeks checking the consignments...
Thanks!