> I take it this is i386.. Does fdisk wd1 (assuming 2nd disk is ide) give you

Yes it is.

Okay here is the output from the netbsd fdisk of wd1 (my second ide
harddisk):

NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1023 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 165 (FreeBSD or 386BSD or old NetBSD)
    start 63, size 4080447 (1992 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder  254, head   0, sector  1
1: sysid 165 (FreeBSD or 386BSD or old NetBSD)
    start 4080510, size 6538455 (3192 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder  254, head   0, sector  1
        end: cylinder  661, head   0, sector  1
2: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 10618965, size 5879790 (2870 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder  661, head   0, sector  1
        end: cylinder 1023, head 255, sector 63
3: <UNUSED>

Can you give some suggestion now?
Bye,

Reinoud.