> > has anyone successfully used these PC ATA PCI cards on a mac running NetBSD?
> 
> Yes. As Donald pointed out, many will work, but you have to be careful 
> about which you get.
> 
> As a data point, I have tried the Promise ATA-133 card, and it instantly 
> switches to 33 MB/sec on the first use regardless of the kind of drive or 
> cable.

As a second data point, mine (a Sonnet Tempo Trio, which is actually a
Promise ATA/133) does exactly the same thing. Very irritating.

I submitted a PR about this (I forget the number) and I think there is
some rumour this might be better in 2.0 or -current. I don't know, though,
since my only -macppc box running a/t/m is production and I can't really
run a bleeding edge kernel on that.

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