Do you have any trapdoor expansion?
The PCMCIA CF problem seems like you have the zorro space of that slot occupied by any non compatible expansion over 4 Mo of FAST RAM.
I believe that the 10GB hard drive partionning problem could be non related to that and caused by bad filesystem (FFS, SFS, ...), scsi.device version, NSDPatch non installed: yu should have a look with Check4GB (on aminet).
