On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Greywolf wrote:

: Is there any way that we could force 'sd' or 'wd' to apply to the proper
: kind and order of disk?

Not easily (...at least, not without probing devices before booting, which
would basically involve booting a NetBSD `kernel' whose purpose is to boot
a NetBSD kernel 8-).

It's possible to differentiate between drives that are simple BIOS drives,
and ones with INT 13 extended commands, where the latter are typically
either SCSI or pciide-addon-cards.  However, this is all guesswork, and the
BIOS really has only a sequentially numbered set of accessible devices
starting at 0x80 (fixed disk device 0).

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