On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:40:02PM +0000, James Erickson wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR port-i386/36247; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "James Erickson" <psykojime@hotmail.com>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: port-i386/36247: ata controller problem??
> Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 14:36:37 -0500
> 
>  msi k7n2 motherboard
>  amd athlon xp 2800+ barton core
>  756 megs ddr pc2700 crucial ram
>  4 western digital 80 gb hard drives
>  siig ultra ata controller card
>  ati radeon 9700 pro video card
>  turtle beach santa cruz sound card
>  klipsch thx speakers and sub-woofer
>  netgear wg311v3 wireless network adapter
>  
>  knoppix 5.2 with 2.6.19 kernel
>  freebsd 6.2-release
>  openbsd 4.1 current
>  netbsd 4.0 Daily

What boot media did you try ?
If it was the boot floppy, please try i386/installation/boot.iso
if it was an ISO image, please try to interrupt the boot count and
enter:
boot -c
at the userconf prompt, enter
disable acpi
quit

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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