Buddha 2018

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Return it and demand money back, it is a flawed product.

EDIT: oh wait, I was thinking of the ide4zorro board.

Anyways, open support ticket where you bought it.

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"industrial CF cards" is pretty much a scam btw.

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No, not really.... There are some CF cards made with industrial use in mind. Some CNC machinery can run programs of CF cards (with proper equipment, SD cards as well) and some cnc machines even run os from a cf card. or close resembling cf card nand.....
And then there is someone trying to explain the difference...

Yeah, and it's all just nonsense. I am telling you as someone who due to  guarantees and support agreements have had to use so called industrial CF and SD cards in various equipment. All experience says it's better, safer, cheaper and more convenient to use off-the-shelf SanDisk cards rather than whatever they ship as "industrial" cards to their OEM partners.

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Its sad, because I had one of these back when it was integrated with a catweasel and it worked perfectly.

Same here. So what happened?

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Industrial flash use SLC flash while most other consumer/commercial cards use MLC.

That's some time ago, though. MLC has evolved with consumer product demands, lots of testing and usage by the millions, today there is eMLC (e as in "enterprise") and TLC too flying around. What matters though, is what works, for how long, and how it fails, and it seems to me that many so called "industry" cards are (if not were) rebranded cheap-skate cards.

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How about configuring boot priority on your partitions properly using hdtoolbox or some other tool?

You cannot disable "as bootable" in early startup, but you can tell what filesystem to boot from and disable devices entirely. Note that if you use OS3.5+, LoadModule and/or Setpatch will reboot again, and then not care what you selected to boot from (unless you go to early startup again).

I recommend you look at this program that lets you install many early menu config settings as resident from CLI (not just VGA mode):

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/bootctrl

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Nah, just get an IDE-to-SATA bridge.

Hm, I have a few of those, and they are 44 pin.

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I once went shopping at B&H on Manhattan, nobody had prepared me, lol