Yes it's VMware 5.5 which mostly emulates a Intel 443BX motherboard.  
What does the math coprocessor have to do with the ide controller?

On Jan 31, 2006, at 7:12 PM, Ian Zagorskih wrote:

>> Not having an fpu is killing awk, which is kinda a big deal :)
>> Any idea why it works fine for non ACPI kernels?
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>> atapibus0 at atabus1: 2 targets
>> cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive,
>> 1000000000000000000, 0000000> cdrom removable
>> cd0: 32-bit data port
>> cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2  
>> (Ultra/33)
>> cd0(piixide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33)
>> (using DMA)
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> Are you running it under VMware? Probably here's the root of problem?
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