On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:08:40PM -0500, Andy Ball wrote:

>     > additional HDD to the secondary channel, because I've
>     > noticed a strange situation under Linux, which I
>     > cannot solve - there was something messed in the way,
>     > in which the system "sees" the partition table, when I
>     > connected a second HDD to the HPT.
> 
> Four channels or four drives (two channels)?

Yes, exactly - two channels, max. two drives each.

>  I only see two
> (atabus1 and atabus2) in your dmesg.  It seems to me that
> NetBSD is handing over wd0 to a drive attached to the intel
> (piixide0) adaptor just because it has called the secondary
> channel on that atabus0.  In a custom kernel, rather than re
> -assigning individual drive device names, you may be able to
> provide NetBSD with a gentle nudge by defining atabus0 as
> the primary channel on your HPT.

I wasn't playing with the kernel config files in such detailed way yet; I'll
read the mentioned earlier chapter of the "guide", or perhaps can I find
more details somewhere else?
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				pozdrawiam / regards

						Zbigniew Baniewski