In article <20040727163126.GA17322@vaasje.org>,
Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 04:08:37PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
>> 	Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
>> > Funny thing is that the i386 install kernel would not recognize the
>> > mpt ...
>> 
>> It's in the kernel configuration. Maybe an issue with interrupt handling?
>
>i386 INSTALL doesn't have any ioapics configured, but these may be required
>for amd64 systems. amd64 INSTALL should work, though.

Can you try an ACPI kernel too?

christos