C1000 Fails To Mount Cf

Hi,
Well I've googled myself silly so I'll come here and try to buy a vowel ...
Recently acquired a C1000 off ebay.
Got myself an ADATA 16Gb cf
It does not automount. I've tried Angstrom, pdaX current, pdaXii13 (now installed)
I even just tried flashing via (my collies 1Gb FAT16 ADATA) cf, the cf updater doesn't see it.
Sigh, so I figure I'm looking down the barrel of hardware failure.

On the other hand, the applet sees it, cardctl ident sees it,

Socket 0:
no product info available (hmm worrying, collie gives "","CF 1GB","")
manfid 0x000a,0x0000
function: 4 (fixed disk) (hmm, promising)

no joy from
mount /mnt/cf
/dev/hda1 is not a valid block device
, nor cardctl resume / suspend / status (says ready)
tried /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart, nope

dmesg gives
ide-cs: GetFirstTuple: no more items
on insert and
pxa_pcmcia_init(0)
on removal

So, anyone got any ideas or further tests or did the collie just inherit the upgrade of it's dreams ???

Help,
Morph