Hello,

> the IDE driver for NetBSD/bebox does not work for me (I don't know about
> other people). As I will have some time to spare looking for a solution
> I ask here for some guidance how to attack the problem; the list
> port-bebox has been very silent :-/.
add
options ATADEBUG
to your kernel config and have a look at src/sys/dev/ata/ata.c - adjust atadebug_mask as needed, this should give you a lot more debug output.

good luck
Michael