On Apr 26, Richard Horwood wrote
> 
> I have an old 486 sitting here, and I have just installed  a new 6.4Gb disk.
> 
> On boot, NetBSD says this:
> 
> [...]
> wd1 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 1: <FUJITSU MPC3064AT>
> wd1: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
> wd1: 2014MB, 4092 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4124736 sectors
> wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, UDMA mode 2
> [...]
> 

Really strange. This is really what the drive told it is, and shouldn't
have anything to do with the motherboard or bios.
Are you sure this is the correct drive ?
If your bios has "auto-detect hard disk" feature, was does it report ?
If not, any chances to try it in another machine ?

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