Thanks for the answers... I'll try them out asap! But I have further
questions:

> If you're running 1.6, you may want to try upgrading your kernel to
> 1.6_STABLE. Some bugs in the VIA IDE support has been fixed.
>

How to obtain this 1.6_STABLE? I was searching hard for some kind of patch,
or newer releas, but found nothing... Is it on a different server?


> There is support in -current. There are also unofficial patches for
> 1.6_STABLE, that you can get from CVS:
> setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot
> setenv CVS_RSH ssh
> cvs co -r netbsd-1-6 -P syssrc
> cd syssrc/sys/arch/i386
> cvs up -dPA -r i386mp_plus16_stable