Well, I found out, er, stumbled upon, why sysinst doesn't see any "ld"
disk devices on any alpha with a Mylex DAC960 installed and configured,
despite the fact that distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/alpha/md.h does list
"ld" as a viable disk name in disk_names:

Index: etc/etc.alpha/MAKEDEV
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/master/m-NetBSD/main/src/etc/etc.alpha/Attic/MAKEDEV,v
retrieving revision 1.95.2.1
diff -c -r1.95.2.1 MAKEDEV
*** etc/etc.alpha/MAKEDEV	10 Aug 2002 00:07:24 -0000	1.95.2.1
--- etc/etc.alpha/MAKEDEV	16 Nov 2003 04:49:14 -0000
***************
*** 172,177 ****
--- 172,178 ----
  minimal)
  	makedev std
  	makedev sd0 sd1 sd2 sd3 opty st0 st1 ch0 cd0 cd1 ccd0 ccd1 md0
+ 	makedev ld0 ld1 ld2 ld3
  	makedev wd0 wd1 fd0 fd1
  	makedev ttyB0 ttyB1 ttyC0 ttyC1 ttyE0 ttyE1 wsmouse0 wskbd0 ttyEcfg
  	;;


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