Well a wise man on #netbsd EFnet once said to me "the fastest way
to solve a problem is to email a mailing list. you'll be sure to
figure the problem out within minutes of pressing Send."

minutes. I'd guess a full 2 of them :)

the problem was the hard drive jumper not being correct.

  C.
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