Ah, right. I'm a bit rushed here this weekend, so I didn't read the logs thoroughly enough.

The SMC thing is the USB controller that shares the bus with the IDE connector. When the USB chip goes bad, it can interefere with the IDE controller. So, maybe.

Does it still do "smc_init couldn't find card" without ANY CF Cards or drives connected? If so, then that's very likely the issue.

It is fixable, but I'm simply not in a position to help further as I normally would at the moment. Perhaps others will chime in during my partial absence. Otherwise ping me again in a week and I'll help figure it out.

Cheers