Elfen....

I do not own any other Mac computers.  It sounds like my life will be much easier if I bought a Mac laptop and then used it.  Of the above laptops you listed, which is the least expensive?  I would want one with either a internal CD drive bay, or a external SCSI port so I could plug in my external CD reader/burner into it. Suggestions?

Sounds like a Multi-Media Card Reader (SD, CF, etc.) to USB adapter would be a cool item to pick up also.

I think my CC is OK.  I can roll in a SCSI hard drive and it works perfect.  So I think it is a formatting issue with the CF card.  I left all the defaults as is with the CF card device.  I will dig out it's data sheet again and re check it.  It seemed that it came optioned for the first internal SCSI chain, and termination.  But I will go over that again and see if I can spot anything.

Thanks again for the help.

Falcon...  Thanks for the heads up.  I will try this option and see if it makes any difference.

jack