>    Eduardo wrote:
>    > But I beleive that kernel has the pciide fix, which is important
>    > for U5/U10s.
>    
>    And that "pciide fix" is ... ?
> 
> pk found that some ide disks needed a particular reset (or some such) that
> was not being performed.  the problem caused mounting root to fail when
> the prom had touched the disk in some way (either loading boot blocks or
> the kernel itself).  it only affected some disks, eg, the 4G that came with
> the U5 works, but a 15G seagate i attached did not.  the same problem also
> occured on some macppc models (which used the same pciide controller).

Ah, OK, thanks you guys (mine has a 4 Gb EIDE in it but that's got Solaris on
it anyway, and isn't touched by NetBSD, which I put on a 9 Gb SCSI external)

Thanks for the info everyone, off to see if I can get it up to -current.

	- Greg