> > > Some time ago, I was reporting terrible performance problems with my IDE
> > > hard drive under the on-board VIA IDE controller.  This afternoon, I
> > > picked up a $20 controller from SIIG.  Under NetBSD dmesg, it probes as:
> >  [...]
 [...]
> I found a bug some time ago in the interrupt handling of the HPT. This is
> fixed in -current and 1.5.3_ALPHA since at last a week (I don't remember
> the exact date). You can fix it by using a recent 1.5.3_ALPHA kernel,

No dice; it still loses interrupts and dies.  I'm going to swap it for
another brand of controller, I think.


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu