On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> I am told (but have not checked) that the canonical way to deal with
> this is to disable the controller in the BIOS but leave it in the
> kernel -- that way the kernel will boot of off sd, but it will probe
> wd successfully...

I have plenty of personal experience with this solution, and can atest
that it works.

--scott