Oh, and I wouldn't panic too much just yet.
There's this guy around here somewhere who knows how
to hack IDE stuff at the lowest of levels, so odds
are good that these can be made to work just fine.


A longer than normal timeout in the Linux driver
might cure that one. Spec says 20msec, Linux waits 50msec.
But we could easily have it wait (much) longer, if it turns
out to be simply slow at write-prepare/erase time.

Another thing which will probably help a great deal
for SSD here (including CF cards), would be to turn on
the multi-sector write capabilities, if they're not already on.

Hijack used to do this, but I think (not sure) that I took
it out again after a complaint from somewhere.
This really should go back in for CF cards and SSDs.

Cheers