> Manuel Bouyer has been working on the DMA and the
> IDE layer of NetBSD. One of my machines, a Shuttle
> SS51G, has a SiS IDE chipset, offering UltraDMA 6
> and it wasn't working at all. The machine is now
> running NetBSD with a custom kernel compiled by
> Manuel, where IDE is fully supported and running
> at full speed. I guess this new IDE layer will get
> into NetBSD 1.6 ; could you please contact manuel,
> download such a kernel and try please ?

Thanks !

Is the custom kernel reasonably stable ? I would be installing it on a server, 
so it should be somewhat reliable.