> With a bit more screwing around, and some old parts to swap in and out I 
> have found that the SIIG Multi I/O card is the culprit.
> 
> However, since the old card i swaped in uses an 8245 UART i can't very 
> well use that either.
> 
> 
> Is there a way i can get NetBSD to work with the SIIG I/O card or will it 
> need to be replaced?  I can't figure out exactly what the error is since 
> that is the point where my screen gets mucked up.
> 
> any ideas on fixes or work-arounds would be welcome.
> 
> SIIG has placed stickers over all of the major chips on the board so i 
> can't see exactly what they are. I'd remove them but i might be able to 
> return this board if i don't.

I had your problem (probing of 4th floppy drive during autoconfig
screwed up my display) with an SiiG I/O and IDE board.  The workaround
(for me) was to do something that spat a lot of output to the display
(what I did was mdir a: without a floppy in the drive).  The fix, if
you can build a new kernel, is to change the line which says

fd*	at fdc? drive ?

to

fd0	at fdc0 drive 0

in your kernel config file, and build a new kernel (this assumes that
you only have one floppy drive).

Cheers,
Alistair
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