Hi,
Thanks for your reply. I believe that I tried /mnt/cf as one of the first devices that I passed to fdisk, but that did not work. It seems that CF memory cards work fine in the slot.
I have not tried another micro-drive, but I will. I obtained several recently, and you may be correct, in that the device is somehow malfunctioning, but since the device shows up as being present, and is identified properly, I tend to think that there is some "device name" associated with it. Not necessarily mounted, since there may not be a filesystem created in it yet.
Someone is dropping off a USB-based CF type II reader device, probably next week, which will allow me to hopefully see how these micro-drives work under Windows 7, and/or if I create a LINUX development system again on one of my older machines, like I used to have.
In addition, I ordered a PCMCIA to CF Type II capable adapter, that may operate correctly on my older ThinkPad 560 machine, which I hope will also be able to read and write to the micro-drive.
This whole ordeal caught me by surprise, as I really just expected a /mnt/cf that had almost 4G of free space on a FAT filesystem when I inserted the drive.