On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, John Ruschmeyer wrote:

> First, OpenBSD... saw the card, saw the drive, seemed to work fine.
> 
> Next, FreeBSD... saw the card, saw the drive, seemed to work fine.
> 
> At this point, I decided to try one last NetBSD boot, just to see what would
> happen... saw the card, saw the drive, seemed to work fine.
> 
> Frankly, at this point, I am confused... it would appear that something in the
> OpenBSD or FreeBSD kernel was able to clear the problem and reset something to
> a correct value. I figure I have two options:
> 
> 1) Assume everything is fine and go on with NetBSD 1.4.1.
> 
> 2) Ditch NetBSD in favor of Open- or Free-.
> 
> Why give up NetBSD? Because I am left with the nagging feeling that the other
> BSDs "know more" about my hardware and are able to deal with it correctly. For
> obvious reasons, this has shaken my confidence in NetBSD.
> 
	After switching everything off and cold booting a NetBSD kernel
	do you still see the problem? If so, could you compare the
	boot messages from a problem boot and a good boot?


		David/absolute