Thomas Mueller wrote:

>>You could try disabling wdc1 in the CMOS settings. I have one
>>computer, a 486 VLB, for which I have to do that.
>>
> I was going to ask what was wdc1, but browsed the NetBSD-INSTALL.html which I
> saved as a DOS-compatible INSTALLN.HTM, and it appeared to be a secondary hard
> disk controller.  But I have no such thing installed in the computer, and no
> such thing shows in CMOS, so I guess I can't disable it.  Apparently Linux and
> OpenBSD don't see this phantom secondary hard disk controller, maybe I could go
> through the dmesg again just to be sure?

Are you sure there isn't one on, say, your soundcard?

We're talking a 486 VLB box with a BIOS old enough to have only two 
drive entries. Given that time frame, this means that the disk 
controller (a VLB-combo card, I presume may or may not have a second IDE 
bus. It also means that and IDE bus might exist on the soundcard.

<<<John>>>