Hi,

> Thanks John. For your Promise card problem, have a look at (you
> probably have already, just in case):
> http://www.promise.com/support/faq/faq_answer_eng.asp?faq_id=292

No, it's not the cable or the drive. I have proper cables and all sorts of 
modern drives. Nor is it that the drive negotiates to 33 MB/sec at boot; 
it negotiates at 100 MB/sec or 133 MB/sec, then, after the very first 
attempt to communicate with the drive, the kernel reports a CRC error and 
switches to 33 MB/sec mode.

> Do you use the Red Hat driver to use the card or is it recognised
> automatically by NetBSD?

The Red Hat driver would likely be little if no use because of the fact 
that it is not common in the Linux world for people to care about 
endianness or data or stack alignment issues because they are so x86 
focused.

I'm using the NetBSD built-in driver.

John