Re: Attaching piixide device before pdcsata device

[dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:08:05 +0200
Selvan <selvany%cat.co.za@localhost> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> 
> I have tried hard-wiring the kernel just as you've described.
> The problem with this is, we use various types of motherboards and on 
> some of these motherboards, the primary drive is detected as wd1 if the 
> kernel is hard-wired.
> Because of the variations in unit setup, the ideal solution for us is 
> not to change the fstab file or the kernel configuration file but rather 
> to have the on-board drives detected and mapped first before the drives 
> on the Promise card.

Do all these motherboards have onboard piixide devices? Maybe you can
hardwire atabus entries to piixide entries and then also hardwire wd
devices to them?

Kind regards
dieter

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Selvan
>