> Before I dive into this, does any of this ring a bell for anyone? > I'm using the ide-cs driver, TI yenta cardbus adapter driver, and sibyte > everything else. That has cache coherency painted all over it in bright flashing letters. Can you build and try the libata drivers and the libata pata_pcmcia driver. The two are essentially the same at the hardware management level but go up via different stacks which should give clues depending on how/if the libata one fails in comparison.