Took the cf card and cloned the partition to a Hitachi 60gb pata drive. Installed the Hitachi onto the iES32 and it booted right up. Booted much faster than the Toshiba drive (likely less timeouts on the sector issues?).....

The only thing I noticed was the Toshiba drive was jumpered for cable select. Not sure this is an issue or not so I jumpered the Hitachi the same way.

My cf card adapter doesn't have a jumper option for that.

I'm gonna order a different ata cf card adapter and see how that goes.

(Just thought I'd add this to the thread in case someone else is going down a similar path.)