>What does this laptop have so special ? IDE disks should be detected
>just fine. 
>Could you try the last i386 snapshot
>(ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/arch/i386/snapshots) ? The IDE driver
>has got several serious changes since the 1.3 branch was cut.

Hi Manuel,

Running -current isn't always an option. If you really want 1.3.x
users to use the lastest IDE changes, then they should be pulled
up to the 1.3.x branch. That's what pullups are for ;->.