> I've also had power supply problems in the past.
> Do the kernel show messages about IDE disks or controllers ?

None but the normal messages during boot ....
Or do you wish me to show the messages during boot as well?

> > Now i'm thinking on buying a promise tx2 ide controller
> > which is a pci card, the netbsd pciide driver supports it now.
> > Besides that ... im looking at a pci bus of 33 mhz and 32 bit.
> > So theoretically .... 33*4 (bytes) is 132 mbyte/sec is the max
> > speed of the pci bus ... so a udma 133 can never be fully supported
> > and performance wise be reached by such a controller,
> > unless you got a faster pci bus.
> > And if i aint wrong the netbsd core wdc driver supports
> > up to udma mode 5, so up to udma100.
> 
> No, UDMA 6 is supported now. But anyway I don't think the usual drives
> can deliver data at that speed.

What do you mean by that? If I have a udma 133 drive it should work
shouldnt it? Provided i have the promise controller tx2 controller.
But ... what about the pci speed problems i described above?
Can such an extra controller realy handle speed up to udma 100
or am i limited to lower speeds because of the pci bus stuff?
Bye,

Mipam.