On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 11:24:55AM -0400, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> [...]
> I can remove and reinsert the card:
> 
> atabus2 detached
> wdc2 detached
> wdc2 at pcmcia0 function 0
> atabus2 at wdc2 channel 0

Can you try a recent current kernel ?
I debugged a similar problem with a PCMCIA cdrom last week-end ...

If this doesn't help, you can try breaking into ddb before inserting
the adapter and typing
write wdcdebug_mask 0x10
c

Then the kernel should print message, which hopefully will help finding
why the kernel thinks there's no drive here.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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