Hello again.
First of all, I want to apologise for my last posting here. I tend to become a bit of a drama queen when I start getting stressed out. I needed to walk away from the issue with the hard drive crashing and the PC slot, as it was really getting on my nerves.
I did end up wiping the hard drive and installed a fresh copy of WB3.1, and as I expected, I lost access to the PC slot. Fortunately, I managed to copy the contents of the original drive to a CF card beforehand. This afternoon, I sat down and tried to figure out why the original 3.1 could easily find the card slot, but the new install can't. Spoiler alert: I was paying too much attention to
Devs/DOSDrivers and not enough attention to
Devs. My eventual research brought me to two programs on AmiNet:
fat95.lha and
cfd.lha. To be honest, I'm not sure where the
fat95 archive comes into play once CrossDOS is active, but they always seem to get mentioned together, so I installed it.
CFD, on the other hand, is CompactFlash.device, and as soon as I put that in Devs, the PC slot worked again. Yes, with 8 megs of RAM in the DKB 1202.
It wasn't until everything started working that I took another look in the Devs directory on the backup. CompactFlash.device was right there staring me in the face. Taking the long/difficult way to do something seems to be a thing with me. Trust me when I say I hate doing that.
Now that I've figured out how to get my system back up and running, I'm a bit more open to experiment with the potentially faulty Kickstart 3.2 roms I have.