I just tried to install 1.4 final release (downloaded on 20 May
1999) on my 486sx laptop and have found the following serious
problems:

The boot floppy finds my wdc0 at 0x1f0 irq 14, then
finds a wdc1 at 0x170, irq 15.  Version 1.3.3 did NOT find this
extra controller, and I didn't think that there are two disk
controllers in it.

Next, wd0 is found correctly, <... on IDE i/f>

Then, TWO MORE drives are found on wdc1:

wd1 <ST506>
wd2 <ST506>

each of 68MB, 1024 cyl, 8 heads, 17 spt.

Now I know that I don't have three drives in this thing,because I personally
installed the one and only drive.

Next, the sysinst goes through about 15 minutes of "lost interrupt",
"recalibration drive fault", etc, errors.

Finally, it gets to the familiar looking install screen.

Later, the disk geometry is wrong (even though it printed out correctly
at bootup), but when I tell sysinst that I want to modify it, the default
values in brackets are actually now correct, and I can just press return
at each one.

It actually went through the entire install procedure, which worked well.

However, upon bootup from the hard drive, the two extra hard drives are
still probed, but more importantly, the system hangs after the "lpt0" probe!

Note: this system worked well with NetBSD 1.3.3!

Any ideas?

PS.  I have tried all the drives in installation/floppies and
arch/i386/install-1.4.  They all have the same problems.