On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:33:38PM +0100, Grégory THIELL wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using NetBSD 3.0 beta with an ASUS P5GD1-VM motherboard and I  
> have some problems to access devices (2 hard drives) plugged in the  
> secondary IDE connector of this card (called IDE1_PCI in the users  
> manual). Indeed, the secondary IDE informations don't appear in the  
> BIOS (but they're quickly displayed at boot time).
> 
> Here's my IDE config:
> HD1: Primary IDE Master (boot netbsd)
> HD2: Primary IDE Slave
> HD3: Secondary IDE Master
> HD4: Secondary IDE Slave
> 
> HD1 (/dev/wd0) and HD2 (/dev/wd1) are OK, but when I try to access / 
> dev/wd2 or /dev/wd3, I get:
> 
> root@termina# fdisk wd2
> fdisk: /dev/rwd2d: Device not configured
> [...]
> piixide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
> piixide0: secondary channel ignored (disabled)

That's the problem. The channel is most probably disabled in BIOS.

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