One more question - caused by a symptom. If I have have three ide 
drives wired up, drive and CD on first IDE connector, a second master
drive on the second ide connector, the system does not see any of the 
drives - disconnecting the second hard drive, on second ide conn,
I get the first two back.

Yep, I have checked the cables. Yep I have double and triple
checked the cables and drives.  Either drive runs as master,
drive 0, on the ide interface.

Any ideas?
thanks
bob 

bad bob wrote:
> 
> Thanks!
> bob
> 
> Robert Elz wrote:
> >
> >     Date:        Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:22:48 -0400
> >     From:        bad bob <sfmc68@bellatlantic.net>
> >     Message-ID:  <3B3BA028.A30DAF4E@bellatlantic.net>
> >
> >   | Does anyone know if four ide devices can be run off the PC164 dual
> >   | ide interface?
> >
> > They can, no problem at all.
> >
> > SRM only understands the primary interface, so you can only boot from
> > that one (master or slave devices both work), but NetBSD handles it
> > all just fine.
> >
> > kre