On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:53:35PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> >	It looks very siilar to PR 9039.  peter, could you check if
> >	your situation is same as PR 9039 or not?
> 
> It's not *the same*, in that my system is working beautifully, and even seems
> to have normal performance characteristics.
> 
> It is similar (system is a ThinkPad, but a 380Z).
> 
> I've been using pciide for a long time, and this is the only quirk I've
> seen on this system.  I did not have this problem before around the time of
> Usenix; I've been rebuilding -current periodically since 1.4D or so.
> 
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 6 function 1: Intel 82371AB IDE controller (PIIX4) (rev.  0x01)

My desktop machine does the same - it works OK, but the IDE light stays on
all the time.  It seems to have the same IDE controller:

pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: Intel 82371AB IDE controller (PIIX4) (rev. 0x01)

wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC AC11000H>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 1007 MB, 2046 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2062368 sectors

  -jm