On Nov 3, 2003, at 11 28, Daniel Eggert wrote:

>>> Did you make sure you don't have one of those stupid IDE drives which
>>> requires that you set jumpers based on whether or not there is a 
>>> slave
>>> drive? And the drive is set to be master? And it's set to 
>>> automatically
>>> power up?
>>>
>>> John Klos
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That did it.  It was set to master, I changed it to single, and now 
>> OF sees it.  Seems odd though that NetBSD still saw it while I was 
>> installing dispite the wrong jumper settings.  Now the bootloader 
>> comes up and crashes.  I geuss that's some progress.  Thanks.
>
> I think you got something mixed up. "Single drive" and "master" is the 
> same thing, since with a single drive, that drive must be "master".
>
> Only when you have two drives on an IDE bus, one of them has to be 
> "master" and the other has to be "slave".
>
> /Daniel
>

I have "one of those stupid IDE drives which
requires that you set jumpers based on whether or not there is a slave
drive," as John put it above.