Transmeta Crusoe + Hitachi Microdrive = no good?

Hi group!

I am once again facing the problem with the Transmeta Crusoe processor in
combination with a Hitachi Microdrive 2GB.

I have read a lot of threads in newsgroups about problems with either
Transmeta or Microdrive, but no solutions.

3 months ago I built an image (using SP1) and made two identical drives, one
was delivered and the 2nd I kept.

Board config looked like this back then: IEI Wafer-6820-733 MHz 128MB

Now I´m trying the 2nd drive on a IEI Wafer-6820-800 MHz 256MB, but it won´t
work!

It boots, but freezes just in the beginning of the Windows boot splash
screen before FBA.

When I first made the build there were a lot of problems before I got it to
work. I tried with several builds (added one or two more components each
time) until it finally worked and today I can´t remember exactly which
component made it work (even though I made notes). I also saved the
different builds and have tried them again, but no luck.

The "funny" thing is that it works perfectly with a 512 MB CF from SanDisk,
SDCFB-512-201-80 (and yes, the image is a little different; boot partition
size etc.)

Also, the same MicroDrive works on a completely different platform, IEI
Rocky-3732EV with dual Pentium III.

So, my question is, is the problem Transmeta or Microdrive related? Is it so
that the Transmeta processor is so special I must run TAP on each board with
different cpu speed or RAM size? What components MUST I have for Microdrive
+ Transmeta and which should I NOT have?

Any suggestions are appreciated, this is driving me crazy.

Thanks in advance,

Rob


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